How Do I Live Without You
Mark 8:35-39 Amplified Bible (AMP)
35 For whoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel’s will save it [his higher, spiritual life in the eternal kingdom of God]. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [ in the eternal kingdom of God]? 37 For what can a man give as an exchange (a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his [blessed] life [ in the eternal kingdom of God]?38 For whoever is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels.
Last week during a morning workout tape with my husband I found my mind focusing on God needing Him just to get me through this workout. This reminded me of a time when I was in Air Force Basic Training and I came down with a very serious case of Bronchitis and I could not participate in physical training and conditioning for three weeks; I was under doctor’s orders, so I went from doing three laps to doing six. The six laps was part of my physical requirements to complete and graduate from Basic Training and to go onto Technical School. I remember praying through each lap and asking God to help me; I was asking Him to take the pain away and help me to endure. These two times that many people would look at as small but for me I look at these situations as examples that if I need God just to make it in the small things how much more do I need Him to make it through the larger more complex events of my life?
There are many times when we get to a place where we have developed so much ability and acquired so much knowledge that God becomes much to do about nothing for us. We don’t fear Him, and because of all that we have acquired; we definitely don’t think we need Him, so we do us, living our life as we design and know how to do. Many of us are thinking that God really has nothing to do with us; we make and cause our own destiny. We have cultivated a thought that we make our own destiny and we are our own judge and jury. We think that what we obtain, the education, positions and the material wealth is fulfilling our own needs and this is the most important thing and God is really not concerned with us, the way we behave or the way we are living and treating others. But in fact He is. This life is not all that there is. If we neglect to choose Him in this life, He will neglect to choose us as it concerns eternal life. We can have so much going for us, that we forget that all is possible because of God our Father, He is the one that helps us to obtain, wisdom, knowledge and the abilities that aid in the process of obtaining wealth. But many of us don’t see the correlation or the connection; we do not see that God is the source of our strength, and ability. We are choosing to live without Him, and some of us even confessing that He is ours, although this is our choice in the manner in which we live.
Every breath that we breathe is God’s air, but just like our lives, we don’t realize this fact and we take it all for granted. We have chosen us over Him (God), we have chosen to go solo, instead asking Him and allowing Him to become our ride or die, our everything and our all and all that we acknowledge in all of our ways. Instead we place Him in a space that says, I will go to church on Sunday I may even claim Him to friends and family but I am still going to live as I please doing what I please the way I please and treating others the way it suits me. But if we choose us now, we cannot expect God to choose us later. We have to make the decision to live with God through Christ now, in order to live with Him later. It is high time that we wake out of sleep, and stop thinking that the way in which we live our lives has no consequence. Because if you are sold out to you and the world and living according to its standards, it is your soul that lies in jeopardy. Don’t continue to live without Him, understand choosing Him now is a life altering experiences that can alter not just the here and now but all of eternity!
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