Don't Waste the Opportunity You Have Been Given
Imagine if you and your best friend are in a life and death situation, and your friend chooses to die so that you may live. Your friend volunteers himself to die instead of you.
If this were to happen, how would you live your life?
You would try your utmost to ensure that you lived your life from that moment on in a way that bears a good testimony to the sacrifice your friend has made for you. You would live your life in a way that would be worthy of the sacrifice made. You would not waste a second of your precious life, because you would know at what great a cost it has been bought with - your friend's life. You would make sure as many people as possible knew what your friend had done for you.
You would try your hardest to make sure you live a worthwhile life and help others, just as your friend helped you. You would do this because you would be so grateful to your friend and what he did and also because you would consider it unconscionable to not live in a way that would bring glory to your friend.
Your life would change drastically. Maybe there would be things in your life that you cease from doing, not necessarily because those things are particularly bad, but simply because you know that they are a waste of time and it would be unthinkable to continue to live your life giving importance to things that simply aren't important after your friend has paid such a price for you to have the opportunity to live.
That is exactly what the Lord Jesus did for you. He sacrificed Himself for you so that you may have the opportunity to live by putting your trust in Him. So many of us see Jesus' death on the cross as a matter of fact, distant event that allows us to be saved, but it is so much more than that. If we put it into perspective and realise the cost he gave to allow us to live it should spur us on to use our life for things of good and to tell as many people as we can about the joyous news of Christ and what He has done for us.
Lets not waste our lives with things that are not important and let us appreciate the great cost that Jesus gave so that we may live. Let us live in a way that means that our Friends death was not in vain.
John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
-BACChristian
If this were to happen, how would you live your life?
You would try your utmost to ensure that you lived your life from that moment on in a way that bears a good testimony to the sacrifice your friend has made for you. You would live your life in a way that would be worthy of the sacrifice made. You would not waste a second of your precious life, because you would know at what great a cost it has been bought with - your friend's life. You would make sure as many people as possible knew what your friend had done for you.
You would try your hardest to make sure you live a worthwhile life and help others, just as your friend helped you. You would do this because you would be so grateful to your friend and what he did and also because you would consider it unconscionable to not live in a way that would bring glory to your friend.
Your life would change drastically. Maybe there would be things in your life that you cease from doing, not necessarily because those things are particularly bad, but simply because you know that they are a waste of time and it would be unthinkable to continue to live your life giving importance to things that simply aren't important after your friend has paid such a price for you to have the opportunity to live.
That is exactly what the Lord Jesus did for you. He sacrificed Himself for you so that you may have the opportunity to live by putting your trust in Him. So many of us see Jesus' death on the cross as a matter of fact, distant event that allows us to be saved, but it is so much more than that. If we put it into perspective and realise the cost he gave to allow us to live it should spur us on to use our life for things of good and to tell as many people as we can about the joyous news of Christ and what He has done for us.
Lets not waste our lives with things that are not important and let us appreciate the great cost that Jesus gave so that we may live. Let us live in a way that means that our Friends death was not in vain.
John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
-BACChristian
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