Don't Waste Your Life
With senior year coming and going, life is a big question mark to many people. What am I here for on this earth? What can I do to impact this world? These thoughts go through many of our heads whether we admit it or not. In fact, it'd be intriguing to hear everyone's answers if they had one. But what is my meaning of life? And if I know what my meaning of life is, do I show it through my actions?
To answer, the meaning of my life is all about Christ. I am a wretch, a sinner, a no good, dirty, filthy person that has been redeemed. Christ died on the cross and drank from the cup for me and for everyone else. He has extended an invitation to all, but God only rewards those who accept it. But sadly people falsely accept the gospel if they even do at all. Their gospel is to accept the blood and move on with life, the gospel that is in the Bible is to accept the blood and have it be our new life. To radically become a new creation; to understand the old has gone, the new has come. To live my life with a meaningful purpose, is to live for the gospel. To devote my entire life to Christ, even if it means to die for it. To take my money, my family, my job, my friends, and everything else I have as a way to glorify God and not myself.
Why would I invest in myself when I know I am going to die on this earth anyway? I'd rather invest myself in a savior who gives me eternal life, and work for Him by helping lead others to this same conviction. To not waste my life, is to proclaim the good news. And if I don't explain the good news in this paper, then I am a hypocrite. Its the news people do not hear about these days. The news that to get to heaven does not mean you can by a prayer that you repeat after the pastor. It is about recognizing we have sinned and therefore, we cannot connect to the holy God. By admitting that we cannot go to heaven by ourselves, for we are too messed up to get their on our own. We must open our eyes from the deep sleep and see that Christ is the only way to God. His death and blood has covered our sin, so that we can become holy and be near God. But most importantly, after this conviction, we must devote our entire lives for Christ. Its a complete surrender. Using everything to glorify Christ, which you can through all of your talents and gifts you receive, which are from God in the first place.
This simple instruction is the good news, but people would rather put it off another day. Who is to say you have another day? Or people tell me I waste my life because I put it all on Christ. In which I reply "If Jesus did not die on the cross, my life is wasted. But if He did, my life is well lived." People also say they cannot handle the persecution that comes with it. But 2 Corinthians 1:5 says, "For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows." So not only is my life dedicated to this cause, but the cause continues to return the favor and give me peace that passes understanding. So this is my life's meaning, and I do not wish to coerce it on others. But simply invite them with a plea, for who can love someone and not be urgent to save them from death?
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