life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
--One day our heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of our body, but not the end of us.
We may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but we are going to spend trillions of years in eternity.
This is the warm-up act, the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, OR you're just coming out of one, OR you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort, God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, and in Christ likeness.
No matter how good things are in your #life, there is always something #bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how #bad things are in your life, there is always something #good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.
If you focus on your problems, you're going into #self-centeredness, which is a big problem, issues and pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We need to ask ourselves:
Am I going to live for possessions or Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures, Guilt, Bitterness or Materialism?
*Am I going to be driven by God's purposes for my life?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better.
God didn't put us on earth just to fulfill a to-do list, He's more interested in what we are than what we do. That's why we're called #human beings, not #human doings.
So therefore,
- In happy moments, #PRAISE GOD.
- In difficult moments, #SEEK GOD.
- In quiet moments, #WORSHIP GOD.
- In painful moments, #TRUST GOD.
- In every moment, #THANK GOD.*
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Thanks