On this Friday morning I am at home trying to get my day organized. Im getting ready do the bills, plan my private lessons, think of ways to improve my business, teach my private lessons...you get the point. As much as I love my job and as much as I love jiu-jitsu, it is all meaningless without God. The Lord is my purpose and my Life. Everything else under the sun, as King Solomon would put it, is utterly meaningless. IS IT? Is life meaningless? Well, if I didn't know the Lord I would probably feel that it is. Every day just the same ol thing. Maybe some new friends and exciting things happen along the way but what happens after your peak. What happens after your greatest day? I have had some great moments in my life. Just enough to realize that some of the things I have chased in the past don't mean anything. I don't feel any better or different when I win or lose at a tournament. My victories were fun but they lasted only a moment and then life goes on. Where is the meaning? Those who don't know the Lord believe that He is only about judgement. Do this, this and this and you will be with Me. This is so, so wrong. Plenty of Christians believe the same thing even if they don't realize it. I still have trouble with it sometimes. The truth is that Christ came to set us FREE! To take that lie away. To open ours eyes to the Truth. Jesus says in John 10:10 that;
"I have come that they may have life and that they have it more abundantly."
Jesus also says in John 12:47
"I did not come to judge the world but to save the world."
Listen to me. Jesus is the Saviour. He came to save you from judgment. He came to make you pure and righteous in the sight of the Father. He wants us to live life in the fullest. He said He came so that we may have life. Life is in Jesus. Jesus is the Life. (John 14:6) My life is always more abundant when I focus on the Word of God. Learning to live it by the power of the Holy Spirit. Im not learning to do write or wrong, I am learning to love the Lord and love my neighbor fully. With this I can do no wrong. Christ is the way. Paul says in Phillipians 1:21 that;
"To live is Christ and to die is gain."
Eternal life is now and death I will not taste for I know the Lord. Today let us live in love and let us love to live because that is Christ. To live is Christ.
"All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist." Colossians 1:16-17
It is so easy to get up and and plan your day without taking even a moment to truly admire the Lord. He is the one who puts meaning and purpose to my job, my hobbies, my marriage, my life. As much as I love jiu-jitsu, I don't like to get choked. I want to be the one doing the choking. Especially when it comes to life. I don't want to be choked by the weeds and material things of this world. I want to focus on the Lord and His Kingdom. Those things which I cannot see are eternal. The Word of God is eternal. Love is eternal.
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