Life

When I was a young girl I would look forward to my birthday for many weeks before the actual day.  I would day dream about what I would get for presents and who would come to my party and when I blew my candles out on my cake I would wish for more material things for myself.  A typical child in love with life and all it had to offer for me.  As I got older, I would reflect on my past years and set new goals for the next birthday.  Now that I am a little wiser I know it was never my life to celebrate.  My life has always been in God's hands.  It is not mine to waste away or wish upon.  The only reason I live and breathe is because of what Christ suffered and endeared for me.  And at any second He can decide to take my life back.  So today I do not celebrate my birthday, another year gone by or my many accomplishments or failures.  I celebrate my life belonging to Christ.  And I am so happy to celebrate that!  I have a light inside my soul that shines bright and burns to get out.  For I know that my flesh is nothing.  It is my Spirit that lives strong everyday.

"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.  The words I have spoken to you are the Spirit and they are life."  John 6:63.        

My birthdays will come and go but my life with Christ is forever.

"For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord."  Proverbs 8:35

"I am the light of the world.  He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life."  John 8:12

Christ is my life and my way for my future.  The only way.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me."  John 14:6