The Good Life
You turn right and you turn left. You honestly don’t know where to go. Your brain is racing, if only you could take a second to slow down so that your nervous system can rest. The moment you take a deep breath and try to be calm you are filled with anxiety once more. This is the pivotal shout out in everyone’s life, “Lord please don’t let me lose it!”
You can have great possessions, even with gain (wealth), travel around the world, or simply going to one state to another, it is still with you. You say,” I will take a ship cruise. Yes, that’s what I’ll do. I have traveled across country, flying in the air from one nation to another, I thought this would relieve my anxiety, but flying is not for me. So, I shall go to the sea, yes, a ship cruise. There it will not follow me.” You say to yourself, “the sea has no infrastructure, no architect or land. Life cannot follow me in the sea. How can life follow me in a ship with a group of people and a captain? I will be safe from all the adversities of life.” But you soon discover that when you dock, it is there: life, yes, life!
Beloved, life is a marvelous thing to behold and to participate in. You say,” participate?” Yes, participate. God created life to be lived and to have vitality at the moment you open your eyes. The adversary doesn’t want you to live, let alone, enjoy your life. The enemy wants to take away your life and oppose all that you do for God, yourself and his people. Once you have an understanding of the power of life, you can then be a partaker of its beautiful nature.
Life is defined as the animate existence or period of animate of an individual. Animate is defined as to give life, make alive, to make living, vivacious or rigorous, give zest or spirit to, fill will courage or boldness; encourage. Life is beautiful thing! God created life in all men (mankind). Therefore, we must not pretend, or send messages, that we are not alive by presenting ourselves as mundane, trite, banal, or stale. Your behavior reflects who you are and your disposition on life will attract others that have what you are projecting. If you have a stale (not fresh) look on life, you will attract and surround yourself around others just like you.
We, as Christians, have life in us. God has given us a new life in Christ Jesus. You say, “I was born with an uncertain personality. I have always been quiet, unassuming, and shy.” That’s wonderful. There are many shy and unassuming Christians and non-Christians. Living your life to the fullest and embracing every day as it comes, taking the good with the bad, is for the introverts as well as the extroverts.
Life isn’t about how you demonstrate it. Life is how you see it. Life is good and very good indeed. That’s what you need to understand and grasp, oh so ever tightly. You say, “what about the bad things in life? How do I enjoy that?” It’s very simple, children, if you go to the market and purchase a bag of delicious red apples and you move them into a lovely fruit bowl, you discover there are rotten, so rotten, apples in the bag. What do you do? Do you put them all into the bowl, or do you throw them all away? You throw the bad apples away and you keep the rest. That’s life! You keep the good, and the bad you throw away. It’s that simple.
God has given us life to enjoy to the fullest, Christ in you and the hope of the glory. The next time adversity, opposition, hardships or distractions come your way, you say, “I’m not eating that,” and toss it away like a bad apple and keep the good apples to enjoy. That’s the good life!
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (PSALM 16:11).
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”(John 10:10).
Glory to God,
Helen Trower
