“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” James 4:13-17
Have you ever had someone come up to you and say ‘I want to be just like you!’ and you’ve replied; “being a sinful human like me really isn’t that hard to do, knock yourself out.” In the ‘Cure for the Common Life’ book, Max Lucado writes that “God made you ‘you-nique’. Secular thinking as a whole, doesn’t buy this. Secular society sees no author behind the book, no architect behind the house, no purpose behind or beyond life…it simply says, you can be anything you want to be.” God made you to accomplish His work with gifts He knit into your being. Nobody could ever be like you. So, tell me what is your life? The world that we live in urges us to boast of our worldly achievements that ‘we’ have accomplished without help from anyone else; WE DID IT! Strive to do better, finish well for Him.
Be the kind of person that when you sit up in bed and your feet hit the floor each morning, the evil foe says "Oh Crap, they’re up!" Life is too short to wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning with regrets; love the people who encourage and strengthen you and forgive the ones who don't; just because you can. Believe that everything happens for a reason and if you are given a second chance, grab it with both hands. When you feel your blood pressure rising and muscles growing tense take a few deep breaths, count to ten and think about how to finish well before you speak when you are becoming angry; forgive quickly. Our Heavenly Father never said life would be easy; He just promised it would be worth it.
There are over fifty-two thousand children like this child living in Haiti who is only receiving one meal a day and that is at their school; that is a blessing. There are thousands more who are not eating regularly at their homes and don’t know Jesus; that is an opportunity for you to finish well while on your life’s journey. Please pray for these children and if the Holy Spirit moves you to feed a few of these children; contact Trinity HOPE.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you…Jay