Life is like a pendant held close to your chest. It hangs on loose around your neck. Good thing you choose how to control it as the owner gave it to you freely and without reproach. You may choose to change the gem, the lace or its decoration. It is a God-given gift to you.
If a worldly friend gave you a gift, more often than not you will place it in a precious place and claim it to be of sentimental value. But what about a supreme being who owns not only the world but all galaxies and everything in them?
We humans tend to think that so long as I put that alarm clock on my set waking hours I won’t be late for work. We think that we are the custodians of our lives. Do I take my life as a gift sentimental value more than I would with a gift from a worldy friend?
Personally I never used to because I never knew who God was. Now I know who God is and I have laid my trust onto him. He has taught me to watch and pray so that I may not enter into temptation. He has taught me to worship in truth and in spirit. He has taught me not to be an average Christian but a growing one. He has taught me to RESIST the devil and he will FLEE away from me. Not run, not walk, not jog but FLEE!
Am working on making my life a sentimental value. Am working in teaching others that their lives are precious and should not be taken for granted. Am working in inspiring others as I don’t want to be a solid rock or a stagnant murk. I am working not just to be a normal average church goer.
I was once darkness but now am light in the Lord. I am living as a child of light for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth. I am striving to have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. In all these I will no longer be an infant tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
Brothers and sisters, I have one question for you, “Do you take you take your life as a sentimental gift from God?”