Your life will be what you make of it

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “The Great Adventure”

Our Bible verse for today: “Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. Without leader, administrator, or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest. How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest, and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.” Proverbs 6:6-11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Your life will be what you make of it”

Evidently Solomon admired ants. Or at least, he admired their work ethic. Ants are diligent and purposeful. They take personal responsibility for their tasks, they go where they’re supposed to go, and they do what they’re supposed to do. Consequently, they accomplish a lot. Unlike some people. That was Solomon’s point.

Let’s return to our thinking from the last couple of days regarding the responsibility each of us has to establish goals for our lives, to make plans, and to get busy. Author Carol Kent once observed that, “Without purpose, a person begins to die a slow death.” In other words, the person without purpose and focus just shuffles through life, wasting day-after-day, moving closer and closer to the end of their life, and doing so without purpose, direction, or accomplishing anything of lasting value.

She was referring to her own experience during a particularly dark and tragic time in her own life. She was numb with grief and despair and had allowed herself to fall into a pattern of just mechanically getting through each day. That pattern then took root and was slowly becoming the new normal in her life.

Finally, she understood that she had to shake that off, set some goals, make some plans, and start moving forward in life with purpose and accomplishing meaningful things. The situation that had caused her so much grief was over and done, the results were irreversible, and all she could do from that point was move forward in life. She realized that her life was going to be whatever she made of it.

That’s true for you and me as well. Without purpose and direction, we will just be shuffling through the days of our lives without focus and probably not accomplishing much of any significance. Regardless of your circumstances or the season of life, you need a clear purpose. You need goals and plans that involve you in meaningful activities that make a difference. The Christian life is an adventure and it should be exciting and meaningful, but that will require intentionality on your part.

Your life will be what you make of it.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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