"One Life, Live it!" For What?

Ok, so as I was walking around Headington on a normal gloomy day I saw a Land Rover with this bumper sticker as seen below. My mind has been running all over the place in the last few days. I can not spend a moment without having my mind jump from topic to topic, thought after thought can only be captured by my writings. Therefore I jotted down what I saw and let the cogs spin in my mind.

So, its logical that we have one life, and we die, and if we trust in the salvation of Christ we spend eternity in the presence of the God of our existence. That is an amazing thought that I am not going to try to explore at the moment. We have one life, and we should live it, but what should we live it for?

We have many options as to what we can live it for; money, power, prestige, possessions, relationships, love, acceptance, ect. Many of these things are "good" and some are destructive. I would rather like to focus on who we live our life for. All of these things above are living our lives for one person and that is ourselves. I think that if we are to truly live we must live for something other than ourselves. We might live for someone who loved us so much that he was willing to give himself for us. That is an oddity to find in our humanity, therefore this person was the Son of God, he gave himself for us to save us from living our one life and then spending eternity separated from God.

We have the option to live our one life for ourselves or for God, which will it be?

All is great in my Father in Heaven

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