Thanksgiving Thoughts
Over the last couple weeks specifically, God has been laying it on my heart that life is a gift. It is a simple statement that seems to be used frequently but people don’t absorb it’s meaning. Life is a gift. And it is. I am 26 years old. I’m young. Yet I keep hearing about people who are my age that are dying in tragic car accidents, dying by suicide, overdosing on drugs, passing away from cancer/other diseases, or being murdered. My heart breaks. The news breaks my heart. It says in the Bible that life is a vapor (James 4:14). We are here today and gone tomorrow. This has been convicting me on so many levels. What in the world am I living for? You want to know the sad but truthful answer? Me. At church, we have been working our way through the book of Philippians in the Bible. Paul says in chapter 1 that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Simply put, my life is only to be lived for the Lord, and to die is better than life here on earth becau...