“Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.” — Theodore Epp

2 Timothy 1:9-10 NLT  9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 10 And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News.

Let us live each day, realizing that our lives were purchased by God, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.  We are being cleaned, rewrapped and properly packaged to finally be presented to Christ at the appropriate time of His return.

This is worth living every day for.  This is worth the struggles, the heartaches and pains, to be able to know, that one day soon, all of the things we have had to go through, will be rewarded beyond our physical and natural viewpoint. We will be complete, both inside and out.

Until that wonderful day, we must live as if that day is days, minutes, seconds away. I know you may think it is impossible to live a holy life in today’s society, but it is.  We have God, who will not fail us. We have Jesus who has provided us access to God. And we have the Holy Spirit that not only guides us, warns us, protects us, but also empowers and strengthened us to persevere and endure.  Yes, we can live with purpose and hope.  For that is exactly what we have been given…A Purpose and A Hope.

May you find that purpose and hope to rejoice today.  Have a blessed weekend.