Keep Living

"Every story doesn't have to have a sad ending."

LIFE IS about living, but it is living above the turmoil around you. The church has taken the warnings of verses like Matthew 24 and the prophetic pictures of Revelation and turned them into peril. Prophecy has become doom-and-gloom. We’ve embraced persecution like a badge. Frankly, I refuse to be persecuted. My God loves me enough that He’s promised to protect me. “Then what do Jesus’ words about it mean, Suzanne?” That those dozen or more who began the church had a tough row to hoe, and history proves it out. Only the apostle John lived to old age and didn’t die as a martyr. But millions and billions of believers have served God well and had happy, healthy lives. That should be the picture we have from Him.

“But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.” (1 Corinthians 14:3)

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.” (Proverbs 3:3-4)

Moses didn’t enter the Promised Land, but he lived to be 120 years old, and God Himself buried him (Deuteronomy 34:6). Abraham was 175 (Genesis 25:8). Looking at modern times, there are many over 100. LongeviQuest has certified the oldest living person at age 110.

Hospitals were created to heal the sick and not to cause death. Please hear my heart here. I’m simply saying our focus is wrong. Let’s live so well we have to intend to die. I plan to finish one day, sit down in a chair, perfectly healthy and happy, and go home. I know I’m not alone because many before me have done so. Every story doesn’t have to have a sad ending.

“We have these little troubles that continue only during this time now. But these troubles are preparing something much, much greater for us, which will continue always. As a result of them, we will enjoy something much better always with God, who is so great and so good.” (2 Corinthians 4:17, EasyEnglish)

“But even if these troubles happen to us, we will always beat them completely. Christ has shown how much he loves us. And he makes us winners over every kind of trouble or problem.” (Romans 8:37, EasyEnglish)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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