The Sky is the Limit

As Christians it seems we often live our lives as if God doesn't really exist - calling out to Him only when we are in dire straights, or when we want something we haven't been able to acquire for ourselves.

We "live" as if God doesn't care about our day to day lives, and knows nothing about what would bring us real fulfillment - as if yes, he created us - He's out there somewhere - and we hope he shows up when we need him - but really, we would just as soon make our own life until that God emergency showed up - practical Atheists or Agnostics if you please - relegating God to the bench of life until we run into a play that requires Divine Intervention.

But what if - what if we realized that we weren't really living at all? What if we realized that this game we call life isn't really life at all but a poor imitation at best. What if we chose to make Jesus the center - recognizing that He is Life itself? What if we began each day by calling Jesus into the center of everything - turning our minds, bodies and spirits over to him - asking for his blood to cover and protect us - for His Spirit to guide us through every aspect of our day? What if we asked Him to talk to us, and what if we really listened? What if we discovered that we had not really been living at all, but dieing slowing in our own made up version of life? What if in making Jesus the center of our lives we discovered that the sky was the limit? What if?

Not just something to think about.

"Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5

"Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me." John 14:10

"My sheep recognize my voice; I know them, and they follow me." John 10:27

"The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. But my purpose is to give life in all its fullness." John 10:10