We are wrapping things up today on our 30 day event. It has been a great adventure and the book has been challenging and very impactful. Today we talk about game on – and how to live it up as we deal with the most exciting and extraordinary gift we all have been given – life. I know far too many times I take this gift for granted, or at least I used to. Not so much anymore. Amazing how a couple big issues in life, particularly health ones, makes one take a second look at just how lucky we are to wake up each morning, be able to get out of bed and live. One of the major goals of OMTL is to get us to live passionately. God desires us to live passionately and it starts in our relationship with Him. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”. That put another way like it has it in the Message version, we need to “love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy”. Do any words jump out at you from these verses? ALL seems rather intense to me. God is not content with anything less than all from me. He wants me to live life completely and totally engaged and focused and it starts in my relationship with Him. Of course it quickly needs to spread to others we are to love – spouse, kids, family, brothers and sisters in Christ and on it goes. Can you imagine if we really began to live with ALL being our goal. It would change everything. The game would be totally different. People wouldn’t know what to do.
Our book has talked about four key ingredients to having passion in life. We need to ponder just how we will deal with these as we wrap up our 30 day focus. Here they are again:
1. Love – the foundation of a passionate and purpose filled life
2. Integrity – uniting what we way we believe with the way we live
3. Forgiveness – we have to learn to forgive others and let go
4. Enthusiasm – literally means “God within” and cultivating our relationship with God is the only way we will every have it truly
When we go ALL in with these four areas we will experience LIFE. That is our goal – to squeeze every ounce of life out of every second in a very intentional way so we can make an impact of significance for the kingdom. Jesus tells us in John 10:10 “I have come in order that you might have life – life in all its fullness”. If we really want to experience the life God has created us for, then we need to have Jesus right in the center of it. That was the mission He was on when God sent Him to the earth. He alone will help us achieve what God desires – a very full and exciting and blessed life.
So how will you live the dash in your life. Your date of birth has happened. We are now living the dash before the final date is written when you leave this earth for eternity. Remember that how you life the dash determines what eternity will be. It is a very important thing for each of us to consider. God wants our eternity to be secure with Him. It can be if we deal with the things of the heart and get life in order. Live passionately. Live ALL in. Start right now!!
