Learning to live

What do you think it means to live?  What is life all about?  How are we to live our lives?

I am sure many, if not all of us, asks these questions as we live our lives.  Sometimes, we take for granted that we have life and the way we do what we do are the way we are supposed to.  But is that right?  What if our culture and what we have learnt is mistaken in what they have taught us?

Max said something that means got me thinking.  I don't remember his exact words, but what he said meant this: Deceiving hearts eventually harden.  Bad habits develop.  These things happen gradually, and we think it is okay.  But really, they are not.


Romans 1:18-2:16 says the same thing more strongly.  It says that people have substituted truth with unrighteousness; Godliness with other things that we think to be reasonable even if not exactly right.  We exchange the truth of God for a lie.  Then, as we ignore God, we live out greater and greater depravities until eventually, we heap serious judgement on ourselves.

We have become vile and inexcusable, and God will be our judge.

Ephesians 4:17-5:7 says that we need to live in the truth.  We need to live out the things we have learnt from Jesus.  We need to speak truthfully gracefully, be kind to our neighbours, live without sexual immorality, impurity or greed.

Are these the things you think of when you think about living?  Or do you think about acquiring wealth and prestige, empires and abundances for yourself when you read the opening paragraph?

How are you living your life?  How should you live it?  What do you need to do to make it right, if you don't already have it right?  What do you believe?