Devotionals

Life is a sacred gift to be lived

by Lorraine Taylor
04/07/20
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Life is not measured in what I 'do', but in who I am and who I am becoming on the inside and how I can show these traits in relationships with others.

When I display attributes such as respecting, honoring, and valuing another; regardless of their earthly status, position, or 'title', I am being successful in stewarding this gift of life.

We cannot take the accumulated 'things' or possessions with us when we pass from this earthly life to our heavenly life. All that we will carry with us and all that will remain will be remnants of who we had become when we leave this earth.

 What I have accomplished will return to dust and what remains will be the fragrance or sense of who I am and what sort of impressions I leave as permeable ones upon a heart, a soul and another's life.

All that we will leave behind when you and I are called to our eternal home are the memories in others of the sort of person we were.

People will remember if we noticed them and if we stopped to let them know we care. People will remember if we showed kindness, if we embraced them in compassionate love, if we were honorable with our word and if we showed the integrity of character.

What remnant will you leave as permanent impressions etched upon someone's heart and how will the fact you have lived have made a difference to another when you pass from life to death?

Mother Teresa once said: "We are called to be faithful, not successful."

Perhaps in these times and this season of uncertainty, we can rise to the measure of being the good stewards of this gift of life we have been given.

Perhaps it is now time to devote ourselves to a higher standard of conduct in manifesting the inward godly traits necessary to fostering and cultivating nearer relationships with another.

Maybe it is now time to reevaluate how we are to live our lives in our neighborhoods, in our towns, in our churches, and our interconnection with the wider community. 

The sanctity of life and the opportunities we are afforded to discover what God desires of us cannot be measured in the things we do, but rather in who we are becoming. 

And when life returns to the flow of moving again, we can remember the importance and the value of our bonded and shared vulnerability as the manifestation of God's expressed desires displayed to others through our humanity.