What if we all lived every day like it was our last, because who knows; it could be. What would change if we lived this way? Our attitude? Our demeanor? Our habits? The way we treated one another? Would we love as if love is blind? Without questioning and criticizing one another? Would we live each moment with passion and purpose? Would we rise up to our calling and seize every opportunity, knowing it could be our last? Would we share our thoughts and be authentic rather then fitting or trying to fit in the lines society has placed like a barricade? Instead of sleeping through life would be begin to actually live it? Would we call that family member or friend instead of just saying " I'll do it later"? Would we say the words " I love you" more often? If we lived like today was our last day would we lay down our lives for a cause bigger then ourselves? If we lived like today was our last day would we lay down our lives for the kingdom of Christ and begin to finally walk like Jesus instead of following the footsteps of the world? Just something to ponder because Jesus is coming back soon and you never know when those trumpets will sound or when your last moment , your last word, your last action, your last chance and your last breath on this earth may be.
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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