Time flies, so while I'm still here, I want to live!

When I was younger, I used to hear people say, "Time sure flies when you're having fun." But it seems lately, that it's flying all the time. It was Christmas the first and last time I wrote a blog.  A lot has happened in my life in two short months.  Sometimes when I look at my children, I remember when they were just babies. It doesn't seem like it was that many years ago, but their ages and mine's tells me that it has been that long. In our suffering we sometimes wish that time would hurry up and when we're having fun, we don't want the day to end. We've also heard it said, "Time waits for no man." As I mature, I'm understanding that the more. Therefore, I've decided that since our heavenly Father has allowed me this time to be here, I want to truly live. Acts17:28 states, "For in him we live, and move and have our being.

Deuteronomy 8:1-3 states, "1) All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. 2) And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3) And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee to know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. Of course we all haven't had the wilderness experience like the Israelites, but we've had our own personal wilderness experiences, in which we were humbled and realized that without Him we're just existing. We've listened to the words of many others but it's by God's word that we live.

Ecclesiastes 9 exhorts us to live and enjoy life. Ecclesiastes 9:7-12 states, 7) Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8) Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.  9) Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 10) Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.  11) I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.  12) For man also knoweth not his time....  Who said we couldn't enjoy life? Satan, who is a liar and the father of liars. Jesus told us in John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Don't accept just existing. While we're still here, let's live and declare His glory!