Live Your Life for God

August 18, 2024
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
Not one of us can walk in another’s shoes.  When someone says, “I feel your pain,” they really don’t.  Only you experience the hurt.  No matter the emotion you might be experiencing, no one else truly understands.  No one actually feels what you feel.  They may be sympathetic, but that’s as far as it goes.
 
If you’re away from the seashore and don’t experience the sound of the waves crashing upon the shore, they still do.  Things still happen even when we don’t experience them.  Kind of like the age-old question, “If a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?”  The fact is that even if there is no sound, the tree has fallen.  In other words, life goes on without us.
 
Think upon this.  Things done a hundred years ago affect you today.  Things you do today change the course of history for someone else a hundred years from now.  For instance, a legend told long ago somehow grows legs and becomes truth today.  Likewise, truth yesterday has a way of being manipulated to make people question what is truth today.
 
But there is someone who really feels and knows your pain.  Someone who can walk with you no matter how steep the road.  Someone who is in charge of the waves of the ocean when you’re not there. Someone who is unchanging truth, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  His name is Jesus!
 
Here’s another thing each of us must face alone, eternity.  No one can experience the joy of heaven for you.  Only you can realize that joy.  So too, no one but you can experience the anxiety and agony of eternal separation from God in hell.   
 
What’s the purpose of all this reflection?  Only you can live your life.  Live it with no eternal regrets!
 
Thank you, Jesus for YOU are the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
Pastor Allan
 
 
 
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