The Source Of Life

Sunday February 15, 2015

In 2012, thanks to a rapper named Drake and the supercharged vehicle of social meia, "YOLO" became a popular acronym. It stands for "You Only Live Once." Though the message of YOLO is  test the limits, it became a justification to live life irresponsibly. The answer to drunk driving, parking illegally, disrespecting parents and missing class was simply YOLO. Its underlying meaning is that my life is mine and I get to live it how I want to.

YOLO, however, can point us to a few important truths about life :
- Life proceeds from God. Every human being owes his existence to the Author of life. God breathed the breath of life into Adam, and he became a living soul (Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4, Acts 17:25).
- Life is precious to God. Since people are made in the image of God, they´re precious and valuable to Him (Genesis 1:26-27).
- Life should be lived for God. Since life is a gift from Him, humanity´s posture towards God should include reverence and a commitment to live responsibly according to His standards as outlined in Scripture (Ecclesiastes 12:13). And those standards for life should make us suspicious of our own - causing us to reject the cultural meaning of the YOLO motto while making a full admission that life isn´t found in us, but in God alone. As Jeremiah 10:23 says, "I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course."

Life is temporary, and death is by God´s appointment. After we die, we´ll live eternally either with God or apart from Him. It´s wise, therefore, to submit our lives to Jesus and spend our days following His ways, for He´s the true Source of life. - Marvin Williams

Read 
Genesis 2:1-7
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he restsed from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens - and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground - the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

James 4:13-17
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord´s will, we will lvoe and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn´t do it, sins.

Question to Ponder
How will you live differently this week as you consider God´s view of life and its meaning? 
What will you do to become a more faithful and responsible manager of the life He´s given you?

**Article taken from ODJ (Our Daily Journey with God) Dec 2014 - Feb 2015 issue.