This article is brought to you, not by me but by the one who sent me. That is the one who sent you also.
Without needing to sound ethereal, you and I have a reason we exist —for such a time as this.
We waste our lives in two ways: 1) by doing nothing, and 2) by doing harm.
Not doing harm is not enough. We are instruments of goodness, of change. We are winds. We exist on purpose.
Let me say it again, to get your attention. Do not waste your life.
Sometimes we achieve more by working quietly, persistently, enduring, plugging away, resting when we need to re-focus or re-purpose then keep going.
In seemingly not doing much, but in being good, we are doing enough. If what we are doing is good, it is good enough.
When something significant happens, like when you get a second chance, you begin to do things differently. You change.
God wants us to continually transform more into the perspective of Him who was sent from God two millennia ago.
There is a purpose for you and I being here.
We have goodness stowed in us — even as we exist capable of the opposite stuff — and that goodness is our mission, should we choose to accept it.
Now is the time to re-commit —while God has your attention, because God having your attention won’t last— so, recommit. Or, commit for the first time, and keep re-committing.
At this point, it’s not the goodness that you or I have done in the past that counts or the harm.
God’s prerogative is always the present moment as it morphs into the history that is written from the future state as we see it now.
Now is what counts. What we do with what we’ve been given.
Don’t waste your life by refusing to use your resources — however precious and little they are.
Consider that some of the things you’ve thought were important, aren’t, and some that you’ve thought weren’t important, are. Be reframed. See things from an eternal perspective.
Don’t waste your life by harming things or others or situations when your resources are to be deployed for good.
Repairing things is goodness.
Creating things that give life is goodness.
Goodness, be goodness.
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Tribework
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