One Life

You have one try at life. You only have one chance. Life is singular. Life is ending. Life doesn't last. Life ends.

            Truly we have only one life to live. All around there are people dying on this earth and you will never see them here again. We need to find in life what it really is.

            Some are directed by God into the good life and find their purpose in life living for God. Others God allows to fall, be temped by the devil, and lies. Wait? God allows people to fall? Yea, everything is in God's hands, just think about how God allowed the devil to wreak havoc in job's life. So, the ones that aren't given the good life have to search for it and most likely they will go the wrong way. They chase for life in many things that don't mean anything. They search for it in money, possessions, girls, thrills, pride, accomplishment, and drugs. Life is about finding true happiness and meaning. The world doesn't offer either of those things.

            Life is about finding your purpose in it. You have the most influence on it, so if you don't like it change it. When I think about living my life I think about a song by Switchfoot. Switchfoot's song lyric of "This is Your Life" really makes you think about what your doing with it.

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose.
Don't close your eyes.

            Seriously, are you who you want to be? This is your life you can do whatever you want with it. I say we need to reach for the sky, reach for something higher with meaning. If there is no standard or purpose does life have any meaning?

            When I was at creation festival this year I was working on drawing a picture. I was having problems coming up with ideas for my drawing, but then right at the beginning of the Newsboys concert inspiration and ideas flew into my brain. They must have been from God because the more I thought about the ideas the more they made sense and the more meaningful they were. Here it is.

            You can see it says "You Have A Life To Live" on the bottom right corner. That is the main meaning of the whole picture, but there are so many other meanings based off that meaning in it. Its an abstract picture so it has to be explained to be understood. The man standing there is stuck inside the walls of restriction that are holding him back from living his own life. The sun and moon on the right say that dawn is breaking and time is running out. If he doesn't move quickly his chance to escape and live will be gone. What does the man do? He brakes the window in the wall that lets him see the better life on the other side. The better life is the beautiful flowers, trees, and nature just outside his reach. Now that he has broken through the window in the wall he is able to get out and Live His Life, there waiting for him. - Ecclesiastes 4:8 expounds on this.

 Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. "For whom am I toiling," he asked, "and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?" This too is meaningless--- a miserable business! 

            Where is life? How do you find it? There is a song by Thi'sl that says "I signed up to die". Its really talking about martyrs, but I think it also can mean that when you sign up in the book of life you sign up to die, to yourself. To find your life you have to lose it. When you give you life to God that is when you really find life.

            Last week God spoke to me and said; "Your time is running out". Now I'm not sure if He meant I'm not going to live for another month or time moves fast and your average lifespan isn't very long. Either way this made me really think about how it would affect the people around me when I die. What do I give to people around me (for example joy or meaningful thoughts) that if it was to stop being given would affect them? This really made me think about not living my life for myself, but others and God.

            Don't wast your life searching for a good life in the wrong things. Go live your life, you can change it. You need to get past the walls holding you from real life. Die to yourself and live for God. Life is singular so what are you going to do about it? Are you going to live your life profoundly, live for God, and make the most of the life you have?