It's Been A While

We go through life without a care in the world. Not thinking about whom we hurt, whom we walked over, or to whom we offend with words and deeds.

Do you ever take the time to call someone to tell them that you love them? Not someone in your immediate circle but someone who would totally be off guard to your tender and timeless gesture.

Do you think about how God has died for you and ALL the things He's given up just to allow you freedom? Do you allow yourself to be used by God in the manner that He sees fit and not the way you would want to be used?

I was riding down the street today and I started thinking about what I would do if I was stricken with a time-sensitive deadly disease? If I was disabled in the manner of which I could no longer care for myself? If I lost my job and home and had to depend on someone else? If I died tomorrow?

I also thought, would I be willing to sacrifice those things if God was promised to get the glory from it? Would I be willing to be a spectacle for all to see just so His praises through my testimony could be reached? Would I be willing to lay down my life without supplication? Would I be willing to let the things of the earth go in aspirations of seeing His face?

We get so caught up on our things, our lives, our friends, our families, our jobs, our homes; etc., that we totally forget our purpose here on earth is to serve God. We feel as though we are owed everything that we have.

The only true promise that we have is that we were born to die. All the things we do and acquire here are just intermittent to what is inevitable which is death. Why waste the little time you have here on earth; feeding your ego, giving yourself praise, elevating yourself to positions you're not even qualified to give yourself?

Have you taken the time to praise God for who He is in your life and thank Him for all He has done? Have you given of yourself lately in the manner that will make Him pleased?

HAS IT BEEN A WHILE since you've taken the time to just appreciate? Starting today, do something for someone, allow yourself the possibility to be present for a cause other than your own. Don't let life past you by without being a help to something or someone. Decrease in you so that God may increase in you! Don't let another "while" past you by without being a blessing.

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