Catastrophe and the Cure

So today, and tonight were both really good.

Made $120 in tips, so that's always wonderful.
Bought new speakers, spent an hour cutting and trimming some wire so I can plug them into my sub.
I'm slowly prepping myself for college packing.
Yeah its all good :)

So today during my break at McLintocks, I started thinking.
For people that don't believe in God, Jesus, etc.
What is the point of life?

That somehow, we randomly were brought to life.
And then somewhere down the road we die.
And then there's nothing.
So everything we've done. Lived for.

Evaporates to nothing. We cease to exist.

Therefore, there's no point to life.

I don't get what the point of that is.

Life seems so utterly pathetic and pointless if so.

And this is what makes me so excited.

Because it seems like such a ridiculous idea that life is nothing.

There is definately something.

God.

And we have a life to live for Him.

"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7

and

"And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. ²⁵Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, ²⁶and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will." 2 Timothy 2:24-26

Why live for nothing when you can live for this?

Without fear. Full of love. For Christ.

And why? Because living for nothing, leads you to nothing.

Living for Christ leads you to. Well, Heaven.

"And there shall no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His bond-servants shall serve Him; and they shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. And there shall no longer be any night; and they shall not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall illumine them; and they shall reign forever and ever." Revelation 22:3-5

It is so upsetting to know millions of people live for nothing.

That people believe they were some random existence.

And life ceases to be anything.

Why, what a saddening thought, people accepting that life just stops, and you become nothing.

Me? I'm proud to tell you, I'm a citizen of Heaven.

"For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into confromity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to himself" Philippians 3:20-21

Life is not lived as something insignificant.

Yet, we ourselves are not significant compared to the glory of Christ.

Life is meant to live for something greater than ourselves.

Not for ourselves.

For God.

Look into your heart. mind. soul.

What are they focused on?

You? I hope not.

Live for Christ.

Something far far greater than you.

That leads to something wonderful.

I urge you dear brethren, offer your bodies as living sacrifices. Holy and pleasing to God.

With love.

Dan

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