Life is to be LIVED!

Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

Deuteronomy 30:19 

 

Every single day, we have to decide to live or merely exist and our perspective will reflect out decision.  As believers, one of the best ways we can make positive decisions is to come together, if possible; to pray for and with each other daily; to encourage each other frequently. My own weakness is in believing that I have to be able to handle everything myself.  Were that true, I would not need a relationship with anyone else.  My own weakness in trying to do everything myself will reveal itself quite quickly as I become overwhelmed and the enemy will use that to generate negativity toward others.

 

Paul David Tripp wrote, "If sin is part of our nature, we will always be dealing not only with our history, but with how sin distorts the way we handle it. Help will only come as we deal with our past and our own sin.  This is essential because sinners tend to respond sinfully to being sinned against."

 

We are sinful people and we need to understand that we are to BE the iron that sharpens iron with each other, like it or not.  And in so doing, we will understand that Life is to be LIVED!