This week, Christy and I were sitting and watching some old home videos we had taken back when Camden was 2 and 3 years old. It amazed us how much we had all changed over the last eight years… and what was just a funny, was to also see some our friends in those videos that we still see and how they have changed as well. Each day we get older… our kids grow up and we are one step closer to eternity. How are you investing your time?
Matthew 16:25 – Jesus said…
“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.”
The possibility of losing their lives was very real for the disciples as well as for Jesus. Read discipleship implies real commitment. It means pledging our whole existence to His service. If we try to save our physical life from death, pain, or discomfort, we may risk losing our true eternal life. If we protect ourselves from pain and discomfort, we begin to die spiritually and emotionally. Our lives turn inward and we lose our intended purpose. When we give our lives in service to Christ, however, we discover the real purpose for living.
As you read Paragon's “book for the month” Outlive Your Life by Max Lucado, I hope you will be challenged to understand you ONLY have one life… do something with it. Don’t be that person that grinds through life and dies without ever asking "why does God have ME here."
I guess it can all be summed up with this quote from the classic 80’s movie… Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… when Matthew Broderick’s character (Ferris Bueller) says
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
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