A Life Worth Living

I’m told there is a certain desert tortoise that can go up to a year without a drink. Interestingly enough, this same tortoise spends 95 % of his time holed up in his burrow. That’s when you wonder if the price he pays to live is worth it—if he has to stay asleep or cooped up in his hole all the time, just to stay alive, is that really a life worth living?

While such a life may be fine, or at least adequate, for a tortoise in the desert, I want to extend this to our life as Christians. We are children of God, the Creator of all things. We talk about people who were born with a golden spoon in their mouths, but brethren, we have even more. Our Father says "the cattle on a thousand hills are mine". He loved us so much that He sent His only Begotten Son to die in our place. If He loves us that much, then what is there He won’t do for us? And if what He has already done for us in this world weren’t enough, He has also promised a home with Him in heaven—What more could we want?

Yet, I see Christians who live in the "dumps" all the time. When you talk to them all they want to talk about is the bad things in their life. Jesus KNEW what death awaited Him, yet the only reason He talked about it was so the Apostles would not be overwhelmed by it. Whatever problems we have, His death overshadows them all, yet did He complain about it all the time? Not at all!!

Part of the problem many times is our activity level. Like the tortoise, we spend all our time in our burrow, worrying about ourselves. Is it any wonder we get depressed? The answer is not more worrying about ourselves, but rather becoming concerned with others. If you can’t go or do for others, you can at least call them. Or drop them a note or card or something. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly, not that we would mope through the years. Choose to follow His plan and enjoy the good life.