Just Living
Just Living. Thats it plain and simple. Sometimes there is not much more to do than that. Our lives at moments are vivacious and streaming forward at an uncontrollable pace and other times they seem to stagnate and resonate with a stinch. So there are times when just living is a good thing.
It is definitely an ebb and flow of rain and sunshine, cold and heat. I find myself that way in most areas of life. There are days when I think I am a great parent, and others where I think I am the worst parent ever! Days when I am the best at what I do career wise and days I am praying they dont fire my incompentent butt. There are days when I feel I am so in tune with the Lord and days where I feel inches from Hell itself. How do you make it through? You just live. You live as if today is all you have. There is no promise of tomorrow.
You mess up, you straighten things out, or at least as much as you can. You break things, you fix them as best you can. You have to remember that its nearly impossible to repair something that is broken to like new or to bend something that is crooked back to perfectly straight. We do our best. Thats all we have. We live.
Just living beats the alternative!
Romans 14:7-9 (New International Version)
For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
1 Peter 2:15-17 (New International Version)
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
Galatians 2:19-21 (New International Version)
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
