Living In and Beyond the Moment // Thoughts

People have a tendency to get stuck in a rut.  I started noticing this so, SO much over the last school year.  Life has this way of doing that.  What do I mean? We get so accustomed to our everyday life.  If you're a student, it probably involves school.  If you work, your routine revolves around your job.  Every single person has this...thing they do.  Something.  Every day.  It's why you get up.  It's what you do.

But that routine can put us to sleep.

We go through the same motions, day in and day out.  Every day can be the exact same routine as the day before, and the day after.

Sure, sometimes we get all fired up about something.   We hear a great sermon or speech, we read an amazing article, we hear a great song, or we come across the most profound quote we ever laid eyes on, and we get excited. Little, happy thoughts of motivation tantalize us, and we feel...good. But, hey, is that really enough?

Are those thoughts—however motivational and cute they may be—going to effect a change in our life? Well, sometimes they do.  But, sometimes they don’t.  And, to be fair, in my life, I’ve found out that a lot of times—they don’t. It takes more than just a cute quote to change a life.  It takes resolve. 

Life is more than just living a routine.  We all do live a routine, I’m not disputing that.  But there can be so much more to life than just living that routine out.  HOW do you live that routine out?

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. –Maya Angelou

Okay, so YES.  You go to work every morning.  Question—are you going to work or are you going to work? Okay, so you get up and go to school every day to get that education.  Fine.  What fuels you every morning? What is your goal?  You can’t just be living the daily drudgeries of life because YOU FREAKING HAVE TO. I mean, technically, you can.  BUT THAT'S NO FUN.  That's boring and pathetic, honestly! Put joy in life. Find the things that impact your life and make a change.  Ask God for help.  L I V E.

Celebrate life.  Thank Jesus.  I once heard an illustration about the shortness of our lives that inspired me.  Imagine a long, long rope.  That rope resembles eternity.  It goes on and on forever, and never ends.  And at the beginning of the rope, think of a little red piece of tape that spans—I don’t know—maybe an inch and a half? And that piece of tape is our life.  WOW.  That’s it.  That little piece.  And then what? Eternity.  (Honestly, I don’t think we talk about it enough.  But that's a topic for another time...kind of)

           

And I think that there are two ways to take that illustration's idea.  1) We get caught up in the here and now, and we don’t focus on the big picture.  Granted, we don’t know and we can’t see the full picture, but I thank God that He does.  But 2) we can't forget that God has put us here for a reason.  There is a purpose for every single person on the planet, and we have to rise up and live out God’s plan for us.  That’s why I call it “living in the moment and beyond the moment.”  Because that’s what you have to do, isn’t it?

Thinking long- term about the decisions that we make today and how they will affect us is something I think a lot of people tend to forget, but is so vitally important to LIFE.  Getting caught up in the moment and forgetting everything else? NAY MY FRIEND.  Look beyond that moment.  Life can be complete only in Christ, and living every single second out for Him is what makes it all truly worth it.  The choices we make today, tomorrow, next week—they all affect us.  The life we live today is fleeting, but eternity? Man, that's forever.

Yet at the same time, live in every moment.  Don’t let life slip through your fingers. Don't live in yesterday or tomorrow, LIVE NOW. Embrace that calling God has on your life and DON’T LET IT GO.  Fight for it.  Live in the moment for beyond the moment.  (I MAKE SO MUCH SENSE right lol) Don’t live in each day for itself, but remember the big picture.  Having regrets for the rest of that rope by one moment of “living in the moment” is so not worth it.  Don't forget that God placed you on His green earth for a very, very special purpose.  Don't forget to treasure every second of this precious gift of life.  It's not here forever. But use every second to build up for what will last forever. 

                           

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Well, THERE'S THAT.  To be honest, I have no idea what this post was :P It's just something that I've been wanting to write for a very long time so I decided to finally just write down I'm thinking.  Thoughts? What's your take on this? (Also if you could ignore the messed-up spacing in this post that'd be great thanks xD )

-autumn