What is intelligence without moral values?
What is drive without sound attitude?
What is sex without love?
What is experience without growth?
What is justice without peace?
What is wealth without meaning?
What is beauty without brains?
What is pride without balls?
Frontin' won't take you far. Not even as far as this buffer.
Pain sucks. Waiting sucks. People suck. Life suck. You suck.
Everything seem to suck when we don't know what the #&^!$! is going to happen and when we are helpless due to situations totally beyond our control.
Look back, we then realize based on all the sh*&t we lived thru that our struggles accomplishes something good in us. If we do not understand the purpose of our life existence, then suffering will be a waste. We waste our sorrows because we will not respond to them in a way that benefits us. And how we respond is essential.
Why? Here are the benefits:
The word in Greek translated perseverance is a word made up of two parts. The prefix means "under" or "below." The rest of the word means a "living place." The whole word simply means to "live under something." Perseverance means that we have the ability to endure. And what is the benefit of perseverance? It is this. It makes us steady under fire.
The word in the Greek language is based on a word that means "tested" or "approved." Character is something that comes from our experience of going through the fire. When we have withstood the test and responded well, we become proved or qualified. Character - it makes us qualified as a person of worth. Think about the kind of people who have made a difference in your life. The kind of people we respect are those people who are people of substance and depth. These are people who have experienced life and learned from it. These are people who have something to say because they have gone through the valley. They have gone through the fire. When you go through the fire without getting consumed, you become a person of worth, a person of character. These are the kind of people who make a difference.
Because we believe, we can have hope for the future. We know that Love is at work. We know that Love is doing something, even when we do not understand what that is. Hope is a conscious decision to trust in the sovereignty of Love. And we need hope. It make us optimistic that Love is doing something eternal in us.
If you trust in the divinity of Love for you and learn to use your capacity to understand the purposes in your suffering, then you can rejoice - not in the pain, but in the results - perseverance, character, and hope.
Lighten up. If the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
I can't help but remember…
Erwin McManus writes; “The present moment is where the past and the future collide, and within a moment there is monumental potential. That’s the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever. Life is the sum total of what you do with the moments given you.”
I can't help but ask…
Can you guarantee that you will have 24 hours tomorrow?
If you can't, what would you do with the time that was given to you?
…do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Live every moment, laugh every day and love beyond words.