In this time of transition I've been working part-time at a funeral home. Over the past 10 months is cause me to have some deep reflections. At times we have stood at the graveside of those who had obviously made an impact through their life. At others you can tell a life was thrown to the perils of this world and was spent rather than invested.
Here is a sobering question today: Are you wanting to make a difference in life? Remember one important key: It is not the truth you know but rather the truth you obey that sets you apart from everyone else. James 4:17 is a great verse. "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."
The Christian life is really to be lived more in the positive, than in the negative. But we tend to focus only on the negative and that is what a lot of people see and hear from us.
So many of the modern day testimonies focus on what we quit doing. We tend to give focus on the "bad" things that we stopped doing. Where are those who will stand and say, "This is what I started doing and this is how it changed my life!"?
With this in mind the Christian life really becomes less about what I stopped doing {very often the negative} and more about what I began to do {now seen in the positive}. Have you embraced what God is calling you to become?
Do not come to the end of your life and regret that you did not have the spiritual fortitude to live a life true to yourself and to God, thus forsaking what others expected of you.
Are
you willing to embrace your God given purpose over the expectation of others?
Don't you die with a regret of unfulfilled dreams because you are living
up to someone else’s expectations for
you instead of God’s call and God’s purpose on your life!
As I stand a the gave of many I hear stories of regret. Do not let regret define who you are. Rather let us rise up and give God our full commitment and life, and live life today with the end in mind, but not overshadowed by certain reality.
