This advisory exclamation “Don’t
waste your life” is cross culturally considered a cliché’ and obviously people don’t
want to live their lives wastefully. Someone might say to me that he or she has
accomplished things in life such as having a good job, being financially
secure, or have already established a solid retirement plan with a lucrative investment
portfolio.
All of these planning and
accomplishments are very good from a worldly perspective, but I am here to
awaken your conscience in terms of your eternal future not only about this empty,
temporal, and brief life that is evaporating like your breath that you see in the
cold air it’s there and then it disappears rapidly in front of your very eyes.
The brevity of life should
concern you and where you’ll end up spiritually after your physical death. The
macabre imagery of morbidity should somehow frighten you because it renders a
finality that would be eternal without a return to your original physical life.
Therefore, the notion of “Don’t
waste your life’ is a caveat about your eternal future, it’s about your
spiritual existence after your physical life comes to cessation.
The theological question in your
head must be like this, where do I end up when I die? That is a fair question
and the answer is tucked in tightly in the word of God. You might say, wait a minute! Don’t bring God
into this philosophical equation; my rhetorical question would be why don’t you
believe in God? May be it sounds accusatory but that is what people try to do when
they don’t’ believe in God or they are not interested in discussing God’s
relevancy in their lives.
I think God has a precept for all
of us to believe in Him and that is foundational and through Him you will consider all of this
earthly stuff like a pile of manure which has no benefits for your eternal
salvation Whatsoever !
Therefore, “Don’t waste your life”
on these mundane things, pursue God so you can see His glory that would last
for eternity. Jesus came on earth to invite you to follow Him and surrender
your life to Him so that you may have eternal life.
16 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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn
the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the
name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world,
but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil
hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds
will be exposed. 21 But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. John 3: 16-21
Don’t allow
anyone to distract you from your pursuit of a holy life because it will pay great spiritual dividends that would surpass
this transient physical life.
So, don’t waste
your life to grab on the vanities of this life because it would be like chasing
the wind without or it would be like water going through your fingers.
Love you all,
Barukzoy