30 Days to a No-Regret Life…

I want to share something with you that I think will impact you and how you view your life. I recently listened to Pastor Kerry Shook talk about “30 days to a No-Regret Life.”  He said… if you had only 30 days left to live HOW would you live your life? Most of us started this year with good intentions and committed to making some positive changes and resolutions with our lives. We may have promised to read our Bibles more, go to the gym more, spend more time with our families, etc. We may have promised that we would give God the first part of our day.  What most of us find is that what we say and what we actually do don’t always line up. In other words, there is a huge gap between what we “say” we will do and what we actually put into “action.” Therein, we find an integrity issue in this gap that will later lead to many regrets in our lives.  If we can understand that NOW we can start to close that gap and start living life of no regrets.

One thing all of us have in common is that one day our lives will come to an end.  In a graveyard all of the tombstones have a dash sandwiched between two dates…a  day of day of birth and a day of death. None of us have any control when and how we came into this world…we had no control over the family we were born into or the culture or time in which we were born. We also have little control over when our lives on this earth will end. But we do control one important thing and that is what we do with the “dash.” What will we do with the time we have on this earth? Will we leave this earth with regrets? Or will we leave knowing that God’s will has been fully accomplished in our lives? It’s something few of us take time to think about but it’s the most important subject of our lives.  

How would YOU live your lives TODAY if you just found out that you only have 30 days to live? The point is not to fear that you will die in 30 days because most likely you have many more years left on this earth.  The point is to get you to realize that YOU can and should have and should huge impact while you’re here. The point is to “shake” us out of our complacency and our “just get by” attitude and inspire us to do more, be more & achieve more with our lives. The point is to get YOU to realize that you have a GREAT PURPOSE and that you are here because God has an assignment that only YOU can fulfill.  YES…out of all of the 6.7 billion people on planet earth YOU and only YOU can fulfill this one assignment!  How do I know this? Because YOU wouldn’t be reading this and would not be on this earth if God did not want you to be.  He gave you life because He had a purpose for YOU!

If YOU knew that you only had 30 days to live you would live your life with more purpose, more determination, more focus and more meaning. You would get your priorities in order and live with more passion. You would clearly see what was important in your life and spend more time DOING it. You would close the gap between what you say and what you do and find that life is full, rich and wonderful! You would see life through a whole new set of eyes! The truth is we all want our DASH to mean something. We all want to live our life full of purpose, meaning and passion. Then why don’t we? I think it’s because we become distracted with all of the non essentials of life. We spend so much time on the small, insignificant things that steal our time and miss the things that will completely transform our lives. We don’t have enough quiet time to simply sit, spend time with God and allow Him go guide and direct our paths. We don’t allow him to steer our course but wrestle the wheel from His mighty hand and therefore end up crashing over and over again. We become tired, frustrated and depressed and wonder WHY we are not happier. Have you ever gotten to the end of your day totally exhausted, ready to collapse into bed and wonder WHAT you had actually accomplished? “I certainly have been busy today”, you thought, “but what have I actually achieved?” I think we can all relate to that. This is WHY we need some time just to “sit” and “be.” We need to find a quiet place with NO distractions and just sit and be. 

Sit and just allow God to speak to YOU. When is the last time you did that? He can’t direct your path if He can’t get your attention because you’re to busy checking emails, talking on the phone, running kids to practice, etc. Many of us miss God’s call for our lives because we are too busy (Buried Under Satan’s Yoke). “Busy” is Satan’s #1 tool that he successfully uses to run your clock of life down to its final seconds.  He knows that if he can keep you busy, busy, busy you will simply MISS it! You will totally MISS your assignment!  Remember Satan’s goal is to kill, steal and destroy!  He certainly isn’t trying to HELP you fulfill God’s call on your life!  We must not schedule God around our activities but schedule our activities around God!  By doing this we are putting God first and allow Him to fight our battles! Aren’t you tired of fighting your own?

Right now my friends we are all in the DASH of life! The GOOD NEWS is that we still have TIME!  But we must not take this time for granted!  Time is precious and we must start TODAY!  I encourage you to find just 5-10 minutes of QUIET TIME today and just sit and be.  Ask God to fill and infuse YOU with his power, his strength and his grace. You will be amazed at how renewed and refreshed you will be. 

In Matthew 11:8-30 Jesus tells us…”Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, 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 shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my load is light.”

Love,

Sherry