Life Explained

On the first day, God created the dog and said:

'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'

The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?'

So God agreed..

On the second day, God created the monkey and said:

'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.'

The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?'

And God agreed.

On the third day, God created the cow and said:

'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.'

The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years.. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day, God created humans and said:

'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.'

But the human said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'

'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the
grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information. I'm doing it as a public service.

SEX!

Yeah thats right I said the "S" word. The sad truth is that about 20 years ago a post titled "SEX!", if blogs existed 20 years ago, would have stunned many and now many people will not give it a second look. The fact is that the society we live in has taught us that "Its just sex". There is nothing special about it and there are no consequences for having it. You do it with as many people as you can because that is what will make you cool. I have to say I honestly feel sorry for all of those who fall prey to that. In fact the opposite is quite true. There is no such thing as "just sex". Sex is a beautiful thing that was created by God and was meant to occur between a married MAN and WOMAN. Of course society has gotten that part of it all wrong too. Every time you have sex with a person you are giving a piece of yourself to them. You say thats not true I have sex every weekend and I am fine. Well thats probably because you gave so much of yourself away you don't have nothing left. The next biggest lie that movies portray is that sex has no consequences. I know there are movies that make fun of people catching crabs from sleeping with a stranger but believe me that is the least of your worries. As a matter of fact you should consider yourself lucky if that is all you get. Millions of dollars have been raised to try to cure AIDS. I know by now its no mystery as to how AIDS spreads yet the spread continues quite rapidly. So if you thing a few minutes of fun is worth cutting your life short then hey "Its just sex". Thats almost like saying hey "Its just russian roulette". Well its just a game until you find the chamber with the bullet in it then its your life.

Another lie that you may tell yourself is that I have sex with them because I love them. Well for this I will refer to my other post on what is life. To truly live you need God. I firmly believe with everything in me that you can only have a real serious relationship with one person at a time. If a man cheats on his wife it usually ends the relationship. The same is true with God. Before you are married you can only have a true relationship with one person which better be God. Once you start giving yourself to someone else before you are married you break that relationship. Many young adults find themselves struggling to get close to God. Well look at your physical relationships. Do they go across the line of what is holy to where you "cheat on God". Its odd how people know that when they cheat on their girlfriend that they are probably going to break up. Why do you expect anything different from God? He is a jealous God who loves you very much. And believe me no matter how mean you think your girlfriend or boyfriend might be they aint got nothing on God. Which brings me to sex. If you are married and you have sex with a woman that is not your wife what would you honestly expect to happen. Why would you expect anything different from God? Even beyond that the bible says that fornication is the only sin that affects your body. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Heres the bottom line. If you have sex before marriage your cheating on a omnipotent righteous loving and jealous God. If you are having problems staying close to God and you read your bible and pray look at your physical relationships. And just to clear something up for all the jokers who might say "When you get married your true relationship is with your wife" Well once you are married the bible says you and your spouse become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Thus keeping the door open to have that 1 on 1 true relationship with God.

What is life?

I have asked myself many times what does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to live? This is the thought process to how I have answered these questions. God was the beginning of life. There was none before him and there will be none after him. He spoke life into existence and molded man out of sand. That was the beginning. John 15:I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Well thats pretty simple. My destiny in life is to be a branch. There are two kinds of branches, the one who attached to the vine or the one who falls to the ground. The one who abides in God produces much fruit, and the one who falls to the ground can do nothing.

The bottom line is that God is the only true source of life. You say but I am alive now and that is separate from God. Well you may be alive now but the wages of sin is death. The only way to remove sin is through God so therefore with a simple mathematical equation we can conclude that YOU+SIN=DEATH or that (YOU+GOD)-SIN=LIFE.

True life can only be experienced through a RELATIONSHIP with Christ. If you go to church on Sunday twice then once on Wednesday and never give any other time to GOD then its not a relationship. A relationship is an everyday constantly ongoing experience that I have been blessed with. Through my relationship in Christ I live everyday with happiness and joy. Now don't get me wrong, I do get upset and I do get down but my God is so much bigger than any problem I could ever experience that when I think of his love and grace and how many times he has come looking for me when I was hiding from him it makes me smile. It gives me a joy inside that no theory, man, law, or force in this world can take away. And that right there...is truly living.