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A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy, but I came to give life—life in all its fullness.

John 10:10 

 

Robert Frost is credited for this quote: "I can sum up life in three words...it goes on."

Life goes on with or without our participation.  You read that correctly, Life goes on with or without our participation!  I have been one of those people who did not want to participate in life because I felt dead inside, therefore I merely went through the motions of existing.

 

There was a song way back in 1982 that had the line: "Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone."  I have known, and still know, people who have lost their thrill of living.  I get it, I really do get it.  When things happen that suck the very life out of us, we have the tendency to turn inward and just exist. There is a thief who would love to steal our joy of life and keep us ineffective zombies who are just trudging through our existence 

 

Here's a little factoid nugget:  God has given us this one life on this rock, and He has given us a limited number of days, and this one time deal is up to us to live or exist.  Jesus said He came to give life in all its fullness.  The word used for "life" literally means: "life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ."

 

We cannot relive yesterday.  We cannot pre-live tomorrow.  We can only live today and how we live is up to us.  Either we let the thief steal our joy and leave us a zombie, or we can chose to accept the gift Jesus offers of a life in the fullest.  If you chose life in the fullest, then live it: laugh, sing, be weird, share yourself with others, go out of your way to brighten someone's day, have coffee with a friend, spend your day making positive memories!!!