When we look back and consider our life, we often see the big moments that define our results. Graduation, career, marriage, and kids. Finally, and prayerfully, grandkids! And, if we have prepared right, retirement! Occasional vacations dot the landscape.
We move through the gambit of starter homes until we reach housing paradise. Arrived! Then life happens and we must change our plans. You reach the age when the house is too much and you start the slide into those homes with minimal maintenance.
Life is always shifting. Think about how we move from things and people we love, collect, and enjoy as our druthers adapt to the times.
Life doesn’t stay the same. We change as it changes. There are many forks in the road, calamities along the way, and a few U-turns. Dead ends. Barriers. Unsurmountable odds.
Major milestones may define our successes and turning points, but life lived in the micro moments tells the better picture. What did you do with your time, rather than how did you let time address your life?
Eventually, life ends. Does your headstone tell the final story of what you accomplished? Others will reminisce about their connection to portions of your story. Will those memories add to the depth of your existence, or will they minimize? Your milestones may be how we think of our successes, but there are more pieces to your life’s story than just those posts of successes.
I did a quick Google Search to find out what the best rules of life may be. [Click for Results] There are thousands of results as everyone clamors to tell you how you can best live your life.
My question for you is this:
If you took a moment of deep thought,
what would the rules of a well-lived life look like?
Here’s My Thought
Jesus gave many principles and Bible for us to live by. Everything rolled up into these few words. The first verse recites Deuteronomy 6:5 from the Old Testament. The second verse clarifies it for all people everywhere.
Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 22:37-40 KJV) [Mark 12:30-31]
I think our rules of life to find success is worthless if we do not put “…the Lord thy God…” at the very head of the list. You are nothing, and you will accomplish less, if you do not first have God in your life. Loving God changes everything. You are now thinking in the realm of showing others the way God wants you and them to live. Your challenges will be testimonies to God, and examples to everyone of what can be accomplished when God is first.
Praying for you today. Let’s put God first. Everything else will work out according to His plan.