Before you die - Live!

Every morning upon arising I take time to spend with my heavenly Father reading His Word. My devotional time has been so good that I wanted to share this one with you.

Proverbs 27:1(NIV)
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

In The Finishing Touch Chuck Swindoll writes about a routine flight to New York that turned out to be anything but routine. The passengers soon discovered that the landing gear of the airplane was not engaging. As the plane circled the landing fields, emergency crews coated the runway with foam, firetrucks and emergency vehicles moved into place.
Passengers were told to place their heads between their knees and grab their ankles just before impact. There were tears, panic and cries of despair. Minutes away from landing, the pilot came over the intercom and stated,"We are beginning our final descent. At this moment, in accordance with international aviation code established in Geneva, it is my obligation to inform you that if you believe in God you should commence prayer."

What's the message?

Live each day in the light of eternity. Seize the moment and wring every drop out of it. Love and enjoy the people who matter. Take another step towards your goals and the fulfillment of God's plan for your life.
In other words, before you die- live!

(Taken from The Word for you Today devotional)

The Reality of Love

Jesus says in John 12:25 that the person who loves his life, seeking to retain it, really destroys it.

Self-interest and self-preservation are ultimately self-defeating. The harder one tries to live for self, the less of life one really has, until at the end there is nothing left of it at all, and one has nothing to show for it. As C. S. Lewis well stated:

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

John 12:24 Jesus tells us that unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

If you want love then you have to give love away, freely, unconditionally and abundantly. Withhold it and all you do is suffocate, bury and never truly experience it.

If you want life, then give yours away, to Christ, who is the only One who can give it back to you again, abundantly and for eternity.

Love truly begins a metamorphosis in you, when you can freely give it away and life truly begins to be lived when you've given it away and find that Christ holds all the keys for abundant living.

So live by dying(to self) and love by giving love away. The people who are the most difficult to love, are the ones who need it the most.

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