If God told you that you only had one hour, one day, one week, one month, or one year left to live, would you be living the same way you do right this moment? Unfortunately many people including myself would say no.
What would you change if you knew your time was near? In my life there would be a lot of change, a lot less complaining and a lot more seeking what God's will was in EACH place he put me in. To be obedient IMMEDIATELY, and to let everyone in my life know how much I love and appreciate them. That each moment I spend with them is not taken for granted, and to complete the tasks that God has given to me. I dont know about you , but I am a HUGE procrastinator and for Christmas gifts and birthday gifts I always have good intentions of doing sweet and thoughtful gifts, I even go to the point of buying all the stuff to make the gifts but then never complete them. As this question started wearing on my heart, so did the things I have not completed. The more I thought about this question the more I thought about what is this life we live really about? What is truly important here? As I started seeking the answer to these questions, I quickly began to realize that my life was not being lived and spent the way God intended it to be. I began to think about the things I wanted to change in my life, and to not allow life to be mundane and wasted away. There have been so many times I have allowed work, sleeping, and boys to get in the way of what God had planned for me. I no longer want to keep allowing those things to steal away the joy in this life I have been given.
If we knew our time was near would this drastically change the way we live our life. Would we take for granted our family, our friends, our coworkers, or the strangers we are here to meet , smile at, and love on. As God continues to remind me that we ARE NOT promised tomorrow, the more urgency my heart feels to be obedient to him, to EMBRACE each moment, even the moments I am tired,cranky, and rebellious. That when God gives me that idea or that plan that I need not delay but to complete that plan because it is the MOST important plan that is given. Why do we continually seek to live comfortably and be complacent? Why do we waste so much time that we do not have, crucial time given to us for special and specific jobs for us to do? Jobs that will fulfill us, jobs that last and will not be forgotten but will be stored up in heaven and that bring a smile to God's face and ours. Each day that we wake up is time given to us as a gift but so many times I do not appreciate the days I am given, instead I rush through them trying to get to the next agenda I have planned.
There have been many moments in my life that I find it hard to get out of bed, wanting to waste the day away sleeping. But God has something so different planned out for each of us, something so much more amazing! Plans to wake us up to live this life and to live it abundantly, to experience him on such an intimate level that you are in awe of how much he loves you, and how his timing and plans are PERFECT and Timeless. Instead we let fear creep in when he tells us to do something out of the norm and that will challenge us,something that will not follow what everyone else does but will stand out.! WHY do we let that fear of what others think overcome the Fear of what God thinks?
The time we have here is so short,lets us not forget what we are here to do! We are here to LOVE. To TRULY LOVE wholeheartedly: Passionately: Genuinley: 1 John 5-6 I ask that we love one another and this is love that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard in the beginning his command is that you walk in love. Walking in love also means to be REAL and true to who we are. When we are honest about where we are at and we boast in our weaknesses it invites others to do the same. We are made to be in relationship with one another and to seek out the best interests of each other. To live life together and to share our experiences with each other, our weaknesses and the struggles we go through. This is a big challenge for all of us its hard to allow others into our life and admit that we dont have it all together but nobody does. People can't relate with Perfect because nobody is perfect so why do we pretend we are . Why do we pretend that we are ok when we arent? What would our lives look like if we were truly honest with each other about where we are? When we stop fearing each other and only fear God, we would allow the love and comfort God has given us to tranform us and be spread out to each person we come in contact with.Then we would truly start to experience something bigger than ourselves.
Each Day is a blessing! Why have I allowed myself to be polluted by the world seeking desires that will NEVER fulfill; never last. These desires promise so much and look so attractive but the truth is these earthly desires kill, steal, and destroy. The only thing in life that lasts is LOVE which is the Word of the Lord. Why do I continue trying to store up treasures here on this earth or seek for my name to be glorified and to be cool and liked, when the ONLY name that truly lasts and saves is Jesus. My heart and Spirit desire so much to glorify my Heavenly Father to obey him passionately, wholeheartedly, with a heart of love !
I pray that you will walk with me in this revelation to truly desire to embrace each moment we are given here and to stop taking for granted the time we have been given. To give back to the Lord serving him with each breathe we have left, being completely obedient to him from this point on. I also pray Philippians 1:9 that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth or insight so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes from and through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.! !
Love you all thank you soo much for reading I apologize for it being soo longgg and kinda spread out 🙂 !
