LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Have you ever thought of why God made you who you are, why you were not made a stone, an animal, and a tree or not even made you at all? Now you saw yourself as a very beautiful young lady or man, or you were born blind, lame, deaf or even dump, has it ever occurred to you that it is not your making? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so we are in the hand of our God (Jer. 18:6).

Some people have forgotten God’s factor in their lives, and they believe that they have the right to do whatever they like with it, even to the extent of taking the life they did not create.  We have a lot of murder or even suicide cases everywhere, where people feel some people deserve not to exist or some people’s time should be up on the face of the earth. When do we assume the duty of God; when did you turn to God? Or in your own case you cannot hurt a fly, but in your heart you wish that person contesting a position with you dead. We are the clay, and our God is our potter and we are all the work of His hand (Isa. 64:8). So, why are you destroying or do you intend to destroy God’s work?

Have you ever thought about how beautiful this world could be if we would just accept God’s work, leave everything the way God has made it?  Starting from accepting who we are, do things the way God has commanded us, no adjustment and no discontentment.What a beautiful place this world would be if only we could all have a mindset of embracing life the way it has been fashioned and have tolerance for others who we have been cohabitated together.

So why is it that we experience different types of discriminationand marginalization in our society?  Ranging from age, sex, religion, race, disability, and so on and so forth, we keep on killing ourselves just because we do not share the same belief, value, ideology, or even background.

We seem to forget that it is not our making that we have such differences, right from sex, no one in this world made him or herself who he or she is today, we grew up to know who we are.  So why are we humiliating others just because we are stronger, more populated, more intelligent, more influential?

Stop making life unbearable for yourself and other people, learn to tolerate, endure or persevere because life is beautiful.  Start to see positive side to things, believe things could be better by collective efforts.  No one is an island, we all need each other, there is a reason God created each and every one of us, let us give each other a chance of becoming who God has created us to become, stop destroying God’s work and stop being His enemy.

We have dropped words like togetherness, partnership, cohabitation for words likediscrimination, marginalization in this era of globalization and technology advancement, when reverse should have been the case.  Some people even justified their killings that they are helping God, please know that God is not a destroyer, He is a builder, a creator.

How do you see life?  Is it a place of war, lack, abundance or peace?  Whatever you see is what you get.  Even if you are being oppressed in any form, and you search the scripture and you see verses that confirm to you that you have been redeemed (Gal. 3:13) and where God said He has executed righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed (Ps 103:4,6), I do not think you should view life as war again.  His Words are alive and they give life, stick to them and believe them.He says He has come that we might have life andmight have it more abundantly (John 10:10).  Please take note of the underlined word – might, it means having a beautiful, war-free, abundant, peaceful life depends on our decision to accept Him because He is the life (John 11:25, 14:6).  Though He has come but He will not impose the life on us (Rev 3:20).

Life in Christ is beautiful.  It guarantees you of being a carrier of love, peace, joy and other kinds of fruit of the Spirit.  This does not mean we would not experience storm, suffering, but the beautiful life that is already residing in us can withstand any obstacles that come our way (John 16:33).  So, in the midst of storm our life will still be beautiful.Heaven is our home, the time we have here on earth is short (James 4:14), so let the life we live be beautiful and peaceful.  Set your affection on things above, and not on things on the earth (Col. 3:2), so that we can appear with Christ who is our life in glory, when He shall appear.

There is no other life apart from Christ.  John 1:4 says in Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The reason why we have a lot of atrocities in the world is because people refuse to accept life which is Christ, and as a result they lack light that is supposed to guide and show them direction.Let us live every minute of our lives for God because life in Him is beautiful.  As we do this may His glory be upon our souls in Jesus’ name.

Perhaps you have not come in contact with Jesus Christ the great deliverer or you need to restitute your way, it is not too late to know Him, all  you need to do is declare Him as your Lord and Savior, confess and repent from your sins. He will save you and give you a brand new beginning, and there after pursue the spiritual things to give your soul and heart permanent peace and rest they deserve.

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