“There are 2 lives awaiting you. The first is the life of common sense & sensibility. It is the safe, risk-free life of conventional wisdom & practicality. Many people settle into this vein of living. They go to college, they attend church, they marry, they have children, they retire. And often they love God. As wonderful as all these things are, they still wrestle with a secret question: ‘Is there more to life? Is this the extent of the life I anticipated when I came to Jesus?’ The Lord will still love you if you choose the ordinary life. But then there is the other life—THE LIFE THAT YOU WERE MEANT TO LIVE. The life that has been buried deep inside of you—buried so deep, in fact, that sometimes only an encounter with Eternity can awaken it. This is the life that whispers to you in your dreams. This is the life that will ruin you for all other living. This life will break your heart 1,000 times & fill you with the inspiration to change the world. It will be a harder life than you ever dreamed you would live, but it will be more beautiful & satisfying than anything you have ever imagined. This is the life to which God is calling you.
Your relationship with God is real. You’re a hero. Do you believe that? Do you believe that you should stand alongside those people listed in Heb.11? Quite a résumé, isn’t it? Unfortunately, there’s more to the text - the Bible goes on to say that they were also: tortured, imprisoned, stoned, sawn in 2, persecuted, left destitute, & afflicted. But then the Bible gives them the ultimate commendation when it says that they were those ‘of whom the world was not worthy’ (v.38). Do you know that God views YOU that way? Do you know that He’s mindful of the price you’ve had to pay, & that Heaven is probably sick-&-tired of hearing Him brag about you? He loves you! His call to the other life was not a trick—there is more awaiting you! It will be more exciting than anything you can imagine. Your life will impact the world in a way that you’ll never understand until you see it from His eternal perspective in Heaven.” -- Chris Jackson
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