Monday, January 9, 2017

[01-09-2016] Genuine Life

Genuine Life – January 9

            I always hear the quote, “YOLO : You only live once” and that is indeed really true especially because this life that we have is just one and we must live every day. But that doesn’t count the fact that we have to jump from a mountain high because YOLO! For me, YOLO is more on giving myself to God every single day.

            I remembered a sermon from our Priest saying, “Life’s problems are life’s source of beauty. Those painful experiences are actually the learning that God sends us. God never promised an easy journey in life but a sweet arrival in paradise.” Indeed, this is true because I experienced a lot of hardships in my life and things that I don’t want to look back at but as time passed by, those things are actually the reasons that I am strong today.

            I became a better person because of those wrecks and ruins in my life and those are also the reasons that I appreciate my existence here on earth especially because this life is given by God unto me and I should cherish it. It was God who gave me life and it should be for God that I am living my life.

            For me, life is not the whole life that I have but the life that I spend every single day with the people I care about. Life may get stuck at some point in time simply because God reminds us that we take life easy and slowly and with a good and joyful heart. If we allow God to enter into our life, we find ourselves further into what it means to be truly human and truly alive.


            Only God can give us the genuine life that we want because God alone is the life in us. “Just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by the same Spirit living within you,” (Romans 8:11)

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