"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." [1 John 2:15]
One thing I've been trying to do lately is listen to what God has to say to me.
There are many ways that God speaks to me, through the bible, prayer, or someone preaching.. But this week it was through music.
Earlier this week, I discovered a new song. Well.. It wasn't really new, it had been on my iPhone for quite some time, but I guess I had never really listened to it all the way through and thought about the lyrics.
Song: Your love is better than Life
Artist: Fee
I encourage you to go listen to this song, 1. Because it's amazing, 2. This post will make more sense if you do so.
I have wonderful life. I couldn't ask for anything better. I say this not out of arrogance, but simply because it's true and I love the life I'm living.
There are so many times that I just sit there and think, "Wow, I love my life." Which is good. I mean, that's better than being all, "FML, I hate my life."
God created the world in such an awesome way that we can enjoy the time we have here. But what we have to remember is this: God's love is greater than anything we can ever imagine. Above our friends, our families, our significant others, our reputations, our personalities, our activities, our whole life in general, God is far above those and we should give Him the position He deserves!
God's love is: "Too high to measure, Too great to treasure, longer than forever." Those are just a few lyrics from the song that gives us an idea of God's love. But we will never really, truly understand it. We aren't supposed to, and there's no one who's love can even come close to God's.
And if you haven't read the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan, I strongly suggest you look into that. It will make you think very deep about a lot of things, especially God's unconditional love for us.
The song also says, "Your love has given me life." If God didn't love us so much, we wouldn't even be alive in the first place!! "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." [John 3:16]
I heard another song yesterday morning that seemed very significant.
Song: Temporary home
Artist: Carrie Underwood
This is such a beautiful song with an even more beautiful meaning. It simply reminded me that this life I'm living is going to mean nothing once I get to heaven. It's not going to matter what material things I have, what I did on the weekends, or who's attention I got. What's going to matter is did the way I live bring glory to God, the one who put me on this earth to begin with.
I'm sure you've probably heard the quote, "He [Jesus] died for me, so I'm going to live for Him." The least we can do for God, who sent his son to save us from our sins, is try to live a life that honors Him.
Also, it reminded me that no matter how good, or bad things get in my life, I have been promised an eternal and perfect life in heaven when my time in this world is up.
"This is my temporary home, it's not where I belong.. This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going."
If you have an amazing life, that's great, but don't forget that God is the one that gave you life in the first place.
And if you're life isn't going so well, God has prepared a place for all of us that will make everything we have to go through on this earth worth it.
Take some time to listen to what God has to say to you. You will find it very rewarding.
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