“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” James 4:13-17
What is your life all about? What is really important in your life? This sinful…fallen world that we live in urges us to boast of our worldly achievements that ‘we’ have accomplished without help from anyone else; WE DID IT! C’mon man...strive to do better, finish well for Him.
Be the kind of person that when you sit up in bed and your feet hit the floor each morning, the evil foe screams "Oh Crap, they’re up!" Life is too short to wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning with regrets; love the people who encourage and strengthen you and forgive the ones who don't; just because you can and because you are much bigger than them. Believe that everything happens for a reason and when you are given a second chance, grab it with both hands. When you feel your blood pressure rising and muscles growing tense take a few deep breaths, count to ten and think about how to finish well before you speak when you are becoming angry; forgive quickly. Our Heavenly Father never said life would be easy; He just promised it would be worth it.
There are over sixty-one thousand children like this child living in Haiti who only receive one meal a day and that is at their school; that is a finish well kind of blessing. There are thousands more who are not eating regularly at their homes and don’t know Jesus; that is an opportunity for you to finish well with the time that is left on your life’s journey. Please pray for these children and if the Holy Spirit moves you to feed a few of these children; contact Trinity HOPE. Now, may God go before you to guide you...may His hands be beneath you to support you, around you to protect you and above you to bless you. And may the blessings of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be with you today and every moment along your journey until you reach Paradise. Amen.
May God be with you,
Jay