fightin'

Yesterday was Easter Sunday. The day the we take, as Christians, to remember Christ's life as He conquered death which gave us freedom from all the wickedness of the world. I get to thinking about what a guy said in church yesterday. He said that if Christ would have just died and never rose from the dead, then Christians should be pitied more than any other people in the world. He then said, "I don't feel sorry for anyone here." That was encouraging to remember that this is the only belief system in the world that has a God who died for people and then came back alive. It's so good!

Now on to what I want to say about my life. I've been fighting with these thoughts like, if God is completely sovereign and it's impossible for Him to even consider sin and we are completely human and it's impossible for us not to sin, then is it even worth fighting everyday? Recently a friend introduced me to a friend of his. I am thankful for him because he was straight up with me. I asked this question to him. By not really knowing him well, I expected to hear something that was somewhat agreeing with me or along the lines of what I was saying. Instead, he told me that EVERYDAY is worth fighting for. God is jealous for each of us. It should be our goal to strive to be more like Christ instead of just giving up and saying we can't do it because we're human and are guaranteed to sin.

But God didn't stop there. This morning I decided to work through the book of Ecclesiastes. It's believed that Solomon wrote this book. That has a lot to do with why I wanted to work through it. He is said to be the wisest man to live. So, I've read through the first two chapters and it's been telling me how everything is meaningless. Everything. Wisdom, pleasures, everything. In a way this started making me think about what I had been dealing with such that I would think 'well, if everything is meaningless, then how can I even strive to be like Christ. Why not just be human and not worry about living right?' Then I felt God speak to me about what I was actually reading. Everything started to make sense. The meaninglessness is when you're life doesn't honor the Savior. Even the wisdom is meaningless when it's not glorifying God because it's being wasted, more or less. For example, wealth is meaningless because it doesn't benefit the wealthy one. It is just passed on. But, when it brings glory to name of Jesus it has the ability to point others in the direction of God.

Whether you are a wise man or a foolish man, a rich man or a poor man, you're still gonna die. So why not make the best of this one life that you're given. The only way to do that is to live to honor the Creator, the King of Kings, Jesus.