LIFE IS A SURPRISE PARTY

Life is a surprise party; we didn’t know that it would happen, but one day we realized our existence and conscious living began.

It doesn’t matter so much what we decide to do with our lives if we never understand that life is bigger than our own choices. If our reality is that we are somehow responsible for our own lives than we tend to live selfishly. If however, e embrace the truth that our lives are a gift from God to be used for the betterment of others to His Glory; we gain a totally different perspective of what it means to be alive.

Changed as well is our definition of success; suddenly “the one who dies with the most wins philosophy” is null and void and possessions lose their value compared to caring for one another. Once a man realizes that he is indeed his brother’s keeper how can he find any pleasure in his own abundance if others around him remain in need? Success is measured more by what is freely given than by what one accumulates for himself. When the character of Christ is replaces our own selfish natures what we value changes. The importance of temporal things diminishes while the eternal good of others, even before our own desires increases.

Work becomes ministry and a means to touch other lives; a conduit by which makes God makes Him known through us. Commerce becomes the podium and our lives become the sermons for a lost and dying world who will never entertain the practice of entering a “Church’.

Reality “Church” is wherever God’s people are living in right-standing with God; when we walk in righteousness for His name’s sake, men are drawn unto our Eternal God.

Life is a surprise party; in immaturity we can protest that we never asked to be born or we can be thankful for the opportunity to walk where Jesus walked, grateful for the opportunity to serve our God through the lives we live.

Today is a good day to reflect the Glory of God. Amen!