What are you chasing?  I mean what feeds your passions?  What consumes your day?  Are you pursuing; worries, things, conquest, a burgeoning 401K or do you seek a lasting relaxation period? Someone reminded me this morning that we all look through our own lens and typically my perspective is always right.  Sorry that leaves you in a position less than right, notably wrong or misguided so that I may lead you to the light of my greater understanding.  Frankly, I don’t know any better than the next guy, but the Lord’s Word is Righteous, Perfect, Immovable and the only trusted source upon which we may establish a reflection for our lives.  So go to the Word when you seek correction, justification or understanding, unlike me it is never wrong.

Where does God fit in your list of priorities?  Please be honest for there were few things that upset Jesus more than hypocrisy.  I mean he gave us the law as a mirror so that we might see that it is impossible to live up to God’s standards, and though we should try out of love for him, it is only the Work of Christ through which any of have or will be saved.  I didn’t do that, that work on Calvary, Christ did.  He came that I might be redeemed to him and be free of the spiritual and real prisons associated with sinful man.  Does that just sound like good philosophical writing or do you truly believe that you have been set free?  If you truly believe that, then you must turn to God for direction in all things, believing as the Bible teaches that he has purchased you back from your slavemaster with Righteous Blood given freely as propitiation.  I know that is a big word, but it is just a complicated way of saying, he paid your slave master’s fee and now you belong to him for he took the death each of us deserved and gave us “LIFE”.

Are you living that abundant life he died for or are you merely existing, waiting until the next thing comes along?  This life is awesome if you believe that it is, for all things are found in faith.  If you are faithful that your life sucks then suck it will.  Free will is the power to make up your own mind and own those decisions.  God gave us free will so that we might choose him freely.  Make the free will choice you have been empowered through creation to make for yourself.  Choose life, choose eternity, choose joy in Christ in this life and the next.  In Jesus’ Mighty Name.  Amen.