Just a Thought...

Hello there Lovely peoples,

I just want to write, like super quickly, about a thought that came to me.

Its based on a scripture in the bible, forgive me as I cannot for the life of me remember which book or verse is belongs to, but it goes like this:

FOR ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN.

Basically what it is trying to say is, you should live your life for Jesus, and if you were to die, which *spoiler alert* you are, then your death would be a gain because you died believing the God is the Creator of all, and Jesus died to save us.
And please don't misunderstand me, I totally 100% believe this, but I feel like sometimes, we read this wrong.

We need to live for something. We need to have a purpose in life, other wise our lives, our opportunity to live, would be worthless. We need to ask God for forgiveness,  and ask Jesus into our hearts,  but it can't end there. You've made the first step, now take another. Pray, fimd out where you can help, be useful, and (I hate to go all Nike on you but) do it!

Don't think it end there. Don't think your job is over because you're now a Christian,  you've been saved, nows the time to live like Christ. To try copy Christ's actions, and follow His word, His truth.

Remember though that there is no ladder to climb up into Heaven. But you can't just sit around living the life you lead before. You need to go out there, spread the Word of God (no bible bashing please). Whats important to keep in mind though is that these 'good works' aren't going to move you up on the metaphorical ladder into Heaven. You can't think, ohh help an old lady across the street, ding ding, up you go, resd your bible, ding ding, up again. We are sinners, we sin, we lie, we cheat, we kill, we speak hate, we get jealous,  so thank goodness God's love for is isn't defined by how far up this 'ladder' we are. Imagine if His love was measured like that. We might spend our whole life trying to win His love, by climbing, up, up... it would never work. Because for every good deed we do, I garentee we do x10 fold bad. Think a bad though, plop plop, down the ladder, read your bible, ping ping, up again, disrespectful to your mom, plop plop, down you go... do you see the pattern?

As Christians, we try to live lives that would please God, we try to follow His word, but we are human. We make mistakes, but if we as for His forgiveness,  His gives it. He wipes the slate clean, every day, over and over. He even sent His one and only Son to carry your sins. Do you know why? Because He loves you so deeply.

So, I believe that we should live for Christ, not only believing, but acting on that faith, and share and teach and help others. Not because its going to earn us 'brownie points' in Heaven, but because we want to live like Christ did and tell others of what He has done and is doing.

To LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN...

XAnni