What is Your Life?

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Nick Dreyer in Christianity, Philosophy, Religion

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“For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14)

This is probably the most difficult question any of us will ever face. It doesn’t say “What is life?”  If it did nobody would have an answer. It also doesn’t say “What is our life?” Otherwise, we could put together all of our thinking to come up with a broad answer.  It says, “What is your life?” It requires deep thought.  A self-examination of our own heart.  There are essentially three main questions that come up in life. Children usually ask where do I come from? Somewhere, sometime, you better give them the right answer, or someone will give them the wrong answer. When we get to about middle-aged, we ask “Why am I here?” Most of us spend a lot of time and money searching for the answer to that question but never find it.  As we get to the latter part of our lives, we ask “Where am I going from here?” In every instance where the Bible talks about the length of the physical life on earth, it describes just how short and fragile it is.

“All flesh is like grass and all its glory like flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.” (Isaiah 40:6) “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.” (Psalm 144:4) “Our days pass away like smoke.” (Psalm 102:3) “Behold, you have made my days a few hand breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you.” (Psalm 39:5)

Life is But a Vapor

Life is very brief. One minute we are here and the next we are gone.  Is life just and fair?  Is it a feast or is it a famine?  Is life a paradise or a prison?  Is it a success or a failure?  Is life a disappointment?  Is it full of love or hate? Some people can answer these questions.  Some people have no idea how to answer these questions at all.

We live in a world where we now have the technology to wipe out entire countries with the push of a button.  We live in a world where it is no longer safe to send our children to school because it’s popular to bring in a weapon and shoot everyone they see as a video game.  We hear about something like that happening seemingly every day.  We live in a world where it is acceptable and applauded to kill our newborn babies out of convenience.  People are being killed for their faith.  People are dying because of pestilence or disease.  People are being attacked and killed for wearing the wrong colors.  Kids are taking their own lives at a record pace because of the culture telling them they are nothing, they come from nothing, and nothing is where we are going.  There is no God so what is the point? What is your life?

Watching Your Life Unfold

What would we see if your life was put on screen to display in front of the whole world? How does God see your life? Are you living for God or are you living for yourself?  Today in our culture with all of our technology and progressive education and advancements, we have more sin, depression, anxiety, slums, poverty, division, disease, broken homes, broken lives, and occult worship than ever before in history. The world is seemingly in chaos!

Despite all the sacrifice from previous generations during WWI and WWII. How many millions of people died for us to have a better life? To have the freedom to live in a world with unity and justice. To have a country that lives for God, worships God with the principles that God gave us, but our society and Government is trying to take God out of our country.  It laughs and scoffs at the righteous.  It encourages godlessness and self-indulgence. Our culture glorifies sex, violence, and witchcraft. The one thing we have learned from history is that we do not learn from history.

You have physical lives otherwise you wouldn’t be here.  You have an emotional life otherwise you wouldn’t laugh or cry.  You have a social life.  You have a spiritual life.  You have an intellectual life.  The apostle John says

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.” (1 John 2:15)

We are to hate the world as God hates the world. World, in this context, means “culture.”  So, what are we commanded to hate?  Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, dirty-mindedness, evil desires, uncontrolled passions, lusting after other people’s goods. Are you obeying this command or are you partaking in it? Do you watch it on T.V? Do you listen to it on the radio?  What is on your internet browser? You see, if Christ has been born in you, he wants to live in you, he wants to talk in you, he wants to walk in you, he wants to work through you.

The Way, The Truth, The Life

 Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and you would have life more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

He said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life…” (John 14:6)

“I am the Way,” without that there is no going.  “I am the Truth,” without that there is no knowing.  “I am the Life,” without that there is no growth. “I am the Way,” that is external.  “I am the Truth,” that is internal.  “I am the Life,” that is eternal.  The whole thing is about life!  Any kind of life but supremely about eternal life. Jesus will not do this with you if you are willingly engaging in these things that he hates.

Life begets life. It is written,

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)

If I were to ask if you were saved would you say yes?  When were you saved? When you got baptized?  When you said a magic prayer?  What are you saved from?  Are you saved from Hell?  Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from pornography?  Are you saved from drunkenness? What are you saved from?  Most of the people in the world are not saved although they claim to be.

The Narrow Gate

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14)

What does that mean?  Most of the people you know will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven according to Jesus. Well, you might say “I went to the preacher and confessed my sins and asked for forgiveness.”  A man needs more than to be forgiven, he needs cleansing, he needs to purify his heart! He needs to purge the evil influences out of his life. He needs Godly sorrow and complete repentance of their sins. When we choose to obey,

“God will bless us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.” (Ephesians 1:3)
“He will mark us and seal us with the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Ephesians 1:13)

If anyone that makes a confession of faith in Jesus Christ, says a prayer, gets baptized, but there is no change in their heart, no change in their desires, no crucifying of their flesh, not enduring and striving to enter the narrow gate then the question remains: Are you saved? If you don’t have a constant prayer life, does Christ really live in you? That’s the miracle of the new birth! Are you born again?

“Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” (John 3:3)

Are you a new creation or are you just a Sunday morning Christian?

The promises that God has given us through his Son, Jesus Christ is worth the cost that has to be paid during this life.

“You will have the ability to come into the presence of the Creator with boldness and confidence and he will hear your prayers.” (Ephesians 3:12)
“You will be adopted as God’s child.” (Ephesians 1:5)
“You will rule and rein with Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 20:6)
“You will be blessed with Christ and inherit the earth and rest in the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 5:3-12)
“No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
God loves us with an everlasting love; he draws us with everlasting kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3)

There are two kinds of people in this world, those that are dead in sin and those that are dead to sin.  Most people are half saved.

“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (Galatians 5:24)

They go to the cross but never get on the cross.  They get forgiveness from sin and then the next day go and do the same thing again.  Is that the kind of salvation Jesus died for?

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this; while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

The Throne of Your Heart

The miracle of the new birth is once you get a new life, you don’t want the old life anymore.  If you’ve been raised with Christ, then you seek things that are from above.  You are then dead to the world with all of its pleasures, pump, and pride.  If you are alive in Christ, the Son of God, then let your hands perform his bidding.  Let your feet walk in his ways.  Let your eyes see Jesus only and let your lips sing his praise.  Paul says the world is a system of corruption, vileness, and evil.  Which Christ sits on the throne of your heart?  Is it Jesus Christ or the Anti-Christ?

Is the world and its pleasures dead to you or does it fascinate you?  Do you dabble in the world or do you refuse?  When we are a new creation, we have new thoughts, new passions, new hopes, new dreams, new desires that cannot be satisfied with the broken systems of the world.  Don’t just come to the cross but get on it along with whatever sins that are crippling you.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

The King of Peace

Jesus promises us peace, rest, joy and strength. He offers us redemption from death that sin brings but we have to listen to what he teaches us.  We have to obey to his commands because that is what will bring us life.  That is how we can answer those three questions.  Where did we come from?  Why are we here?  Where are we going?

These are questions that I have to answer for myself every single moment of the day.  The difference between the followers of Christ and the rest of the world is that we get to choose our answer to those questions instead of the world choosing it for us.  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  I must choose to strive to enter through the narrow gate.  What is my life?  Jesus Christ is the answer to that question.  My life is but a vapor; here today and gone tomorrow.  Let’s live a life that brings glory to our Creator so that when the day comes when we are called home he will look as us with a smile,

“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ (Matthew 25:23)

This is not to condemn you but to convict you as it has me.

“We are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:37-39)

So, I challenge you to take this to God and do a deep inventory of your heart to see if you can truly answer this extremely important question.  What is your life?

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