Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 4/7/14 - Taking Life For Granted
"Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:13-15 NLT
The reality of being in recovery and having a personal relationship with God is that we really do live a whole new way of life. Many of us, for the first time in our lives have peace, love, and joy. We have renewed relationships with family and friends. We enjoy or work and our service to others. We are allowing God to make dreams reality. Even with challenges this truly is a wonderful way of life.
The caution from the text, however, is not to take these blessings for granted. We have to understand that none of our blessings or relationships are permanent except our relationship with God. Folk we love will pass or sometimes just pass out of our lives. Jobs and assignments come and go and material things are temporary. Most of us have had regrets about something we should have said or did or not said or did surrounding someone that is no longer around. God is telling us that part of living this new way is that we can avoid those regrets in the future by appreciating what and who we have now. We can stop neglecting them or taking them for granted. We can stop putting off phone calls or chances to get together. We can stop leaving things unsaid or undone. Tomorrow is not promised to us or them so let's not act like we have all the time in the world to appreciate what or who we have before we look up one day and it and they are gone.
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