11 April 2023 - The value of life

Life is a gift from God.

Since life is a gift from God, make sure that you make every moment of it count. Life is a precious gift from God; make the most of it. We must always give our best and make an impact wherever we are. Your life on earth is a precious gift, do not waste it.

Ephesians 5:15-16 (AMP) Therefore see that you walk carefully , not as the unwise, but as wise , making the very most of your time , because the days are evil.

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive." -Albert Einstein

"The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live; you are important because of how effective you live." -Myles Munroe

“One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life." -Vanilla Ice

“To add value to others, one must first value others."- John C. Maxwell

James 4:13-15 (NLT) Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the LORD wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

2 Samuel 14:14 (NLT) All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.

Psalm 36:9 (NLT) For you are the fountain of life.

I want to conclude with John Gill’s commentary on this verse. “God himself is the fountain of living waters; this is a reason proving the happiness of those that trust in the Lord, …because with God the object of their trust is the fountain of life; not only of natural life, from whom they have it, and by whom it is supported, but of spiritual life, being quickened by him when dead in sin, by virtue of which they live by faith in Christ, and also of eternal life; and the phrase denotes, that life is originally in God as in its fountain, and that both the fulness of it is with him, and the freeness of it in the communication of it to others, as well as its continuance and duration.”