Life is short. Make it worth something.

Lately I've been convicted of how I live my life. Do I really, truly, believe that the God of the Universe, the maker of heaven and earth, gave up his son, who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing? That he became obedient to the most painful way of dying? For me? Do I truly believe with all my heart that he died a death that satisfied the infinite wrath that God had for me, and was infinitely righteous in my place?

Because that should change EVERYTHING.

But does it?

Sometimes it takes something like a shooting at NCHS to come to grips with reality.
This life is short. It's a vapor. I'm here today, but I could be gone tomorrow.


What scares me is that I usually live my life in a way that portrays that I don't truly believe that I've been delivered from death. Yeah, Jesus died for my sins. I hear it everyday. But what would happen if I actually HEARD it? For real? And heard it EVERY DAY of my life? That would enable me to live freely, with confidence that all the requirements that God has of me have been met in Christ. That would shape how I interact with people. That would change my selfish motives. That would enable me to actually love. And not cheap love, but love that imitates the love that Christ had for me.

And that.....that could make my life worth something.

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:1

 
The point of my life is to glorify God. Does sitting in church, sitting in Christian school, sitting on my couch being a "good" Christian and reading my Bible glorify him? Not really. Not unless it actually leads me to real action. Doing something for the sake of God and not myself, that definitely glorifies him.

This is hard. I don't know how to take action in the right way. I'm so accustomed to living under a yoke of slavery. I don't know how to live a radical life of abandon in light of loving my Savior. It's not safe. It's not normal. But it's important. And I have faith that as long as I'm willing, God is going to do some pretty amazing things.