Mon. Aug 10
"LIVE A LIFE OF LOVE." (EPHESIANS 5:2 NIV)
The call to love (2)
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There's a condition called "Active Inertia." It happens when we stick to old commitments that no longer make sense. In some cases, they are actually detrimental to our health, our family and our spiritual well-being. This goes on until we hit a crisis. For example:
A busy father whose neglected daughter runs away from home and gets sucked into a life of addiction suddenly finds the time to scour the country looking for her, and then spend weeks looking for treatment clinics. A couple who were too busy for each other suddenly find massive amounts of time for counseling and lawyers and legal bills and apartment searches as their marriage falls apart. A workaholic suddenly finds time to ask what life really means when a lab report comes back from the doctor's office marked "Malignant."
Dr. Timothy Johnson writes: "Part of the pleasure of reading a novel lies in not knowing how it will turn out until we get to the last page - and then thinking back on how the characters might have lived differently had they known what the end would be like. But real life has an urgency so different from fiction; at the end, it cannot be changed. The meaning of life is that it stops. We will never figure out how we should live our life unless we understand the significance of the fact that it will end. And then what?" So, pause and ask yourself what you're doing (or not doing) with your life right now that will lead to regret later. Life is always played in a forward direction; it never goes backward. Paul's advice on this subject is, "Live a life of love."
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