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The Importance of not Wasting Your Life.

There is a lot of talk about religion these day, and parts of the faith or being faithful has gotten a bad wrap. But what I really want to stress is that it is incredibly important to not waste our lives. In Ephesians 5:16 it say we should be "redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Life is incredibly short, and a life that is well lived will count for all eternity. The problem is that most of us don't know how to live our lives with meaning? There are countless ways you can spend your time here on earth, and there are countless ways people can confuse you as to how you should be doing it. Faith is a start, if you live your life with faith it can help you through the difficult moments of life, and God can even save your soul. But faith must be pure, in order to get to heaven you must let go of anything that is keeping you from loving God with your whole heart. This is where people forget about being people of faith because they are so attached to people, places, and things in this life, that they place no importance on the next life after this one is over.

 You don't want to be the kind of person who lives their lives for pleasure either. The right kind of pleasure at the right time can be very enjoyable. God gave us desires, but it's when those desires are out of control that God has to step back and say "OK, you want these things more than me, so you can have them" but the problem with that is that God leaves our lives because we just broke one of the Ten Commandments; "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 7"You shall have no other gods before me
. Deuteronomy 5:6-7. The reason why God does want us to put anything above him is because it produces pride. Satan was a servant of God before he fell and took a third of the angels with him, and the reason why he became the devil was because of pride. Read from Isaiah chapter 14;

How you are fallen from heaven,
O [a]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the [b]lowest depths of the Pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who [c]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

Satan clearly wanted to be like God, he didn't want God to rule over him he wanted to be God, so it was the prideful heart of the angel that the bible tells us will land him in hell forever. The reason why we shouldn't waste our lives is because God is a good God and he desires our eternal happiness. We might not be fully satisfied in this life, but God has all of eternity to make it up to us, if we trust him now. This is Mike. 

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