Loving Life!

There are many who seem to love life and try to live it to the fullest. There is much we can enjoy in this life. Life is filled with many sweet experiences and to be able to live life with exuberant joy is a marvelous way to be carried through each day. However, there are many who love life for the all the wrong reasons. They love life for the personal pleasures they may get out of it rather than living it for the purposes for which it is given. For these individuals, life is lived and choices are made based upon what they want rather than with an acknowledgement of GOD AND HIS WILL. Therefore, it may be right that they love life, yet while not living and loving that which is right.

Peter (quoting from Psalm 34:12-16) exhorted his readers…
“(10) For ‘WHOEVER DESIRES TO LOVE LIFE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; (11) let him TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; let him seek peace and pursue it. (12) For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.’” ( 1 Peter 3:10-12 ESV)

The literal Greek in verse 10 implies the idea of “wanting” or “wishing” to love life. It is choosing to love life. We all have the freedom to choose how we will live, but with choices come consequences. We must give serious consideration as to the impact the way we live has on others and with regard to future days. Those who simply live life for personal pleasure will somewhere down the road look back with regret.

Where does our love for life rest? It is true we may have good days and bad days throughout our life. However, the trials we endure should not cause us to give up on life. Some of the days the world may consider bad may in fact be viewed by us as good days knowing the strength of character developed through enduring and the assurance of hope that is ours through LIVING LIFE FOR GOD.

Life is a loving gift from God and He holds a promise of it for an eternity. To truly love life is to thank Him for it and USE IT TO HIS GLORY. We are to be about the business of doing good, thus following the example Jesus set as He walked this earth. ( Acts 10:38) Therein can be found the greatest sustaining joy for living. May each day we live reflect to the world how life can be loved and lived to the fullest through living to PLEASE GOD and offering ourselves in service to those around us. By living life in this way we will experience the difference between a full life and a fulfilling one. We’re going to love it!

Have a great day FILLING LIFE WITH ALL THAT IS TRULY GOOD!
Carl

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