“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal glory” (Galatians 6:7-8).

So…how’s it going?

Don’t answer that nonchalantly. Take a moment to reflect on your life right now. How is it going? Take an inventory of your life. Do you like what you see? Do you like what you live for? Do you like what you stand for? Do you like the impact you’ve had on the people around you? Have you been living into God’s purpose for your life?

If you’re doing well and you can answer these questions positively, way to go! Keep going! Keep living! Keep impacting God’s world with his love and grace.

If you don’t like what you see, if you don’t like what you’rw currently reaping, you might want to check the seeds you’re planting. You are where you are because of the choices you have made and the values you have been cherishing. If you don’t like where you are, if you don’t like what you see, you’ve got to stop what you’re currently doing and start making different choices.

Don’t just make different choices…make God-honoring choices. Do what God created you for. Read God’s word and do what it says.

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal glory” (Galatians 6:7-8).

“Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are perishing” (Hebrews 9:27-28).

We all die. Not all live.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wrote, “Look, you’re going to die. Death is the ultimate democracy. You don’t have anything to say about when you die, where you die, how you die. The only thing you can say is what it is you give your life for. And you have to give your life for something every day so that when you die, people will know that you were living for others and you were living out God’s plans.”

There is nothing anyone can do about death. It’s going to happen. The only thing we have control over is how we live. Living and surviving are very different things. Living has to do with purpose and meaning. And, when it comes to purpose and meaning, it cannot be about you. It is always about the other. It is always about what God created you for.

So, what are you living for? What are you giving your life to? How is the world around you better because you are present? What did God create you for? Are you living into God’s created purpose?

We all die. Isn’t it time you start living?

“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31-32).

“What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me is what is true for me.”

Not true. That’s called an opinion. That’s not truth. When you look at a black chair, it’s absurd to say, I don’t see it as black. It’s more greenish to me. You can’t tell your bank, I know that my account is negative, but I don’t see it that way. I’ve given lots of money to this bank over the years.

Truth doesn’t work that way.

Look at what Jesus says before he talks about the truth. “If you hold to my teaching…you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” The standard and the measure for what is true or not for a disciple of Jesus is the word of God.

One of the greatest battles you will face as a Christian is between what you know and what you feel. Too often, Christians are letting feelings determine their truth and reality. This is a terrible way to live.

Look, almost every single day of the week, I feel like eating a cheeseburger…no, not just a cheeseburger, but a double bacon cheeseburger…YEAH. In fact, I lived that way for a while. I had a double bacon cheeseburger three to four times a week. I weighed forty pounds more. And, oh yeah, I had two heart attacks.

Dude! You can’t live life based on what you feel!!! It’s a terrible way to live.

You have to live based on what is true, what is right, what is good. And, for the Christian, it is the Bible that determines what is true, what is right, what is good. Live according to God’s word. And living like that, living according to God’s truth, will set you free.