Worth It?

Worth it????
As I sit here, at my kitchen table. I sit and listen to the tick, tick, tick of my kitchen clock. The only other sounds are of my fridge humming its melody, the cars outside my window and my endless typing. Many thoughts go through my head. Midnight quickly is approaching and school and work loom in my future but sleep is far me tonight. So I chose to sit here and write instead.
There is a question that swirls in my head. The question, is life really worth it? Is it really? Is all the hustle and bustle worth the time and effort? Is life really worth our blood, sweat and tears? Does any of this really matter? Is this endless, seemingly pointless cycle of life even worth it? We are born, we live and then we die. We are buried and forgotten. Just forgotten another name in rows and rows of names. That one day will be covered over with ivy. So is this life even worth it? Is everything we go through worth it? Does it matter at all? Is life worth living?

Sometimes life does not seem worth it. Everyone is caught up in their own thing. Everyone is too busy for anyone else. To busy to listen when a friend has problems and needs a listening ear. Everyone is busy trying to make their way to the top. Trying to reach their goals and their dreams and they don't care who they hurt. People use you and when your use is up, you get the boot. Everyone is now the center of their own focus. Mothers can kill their unborn babies if they find the baby to be an inconvenience. Kids take guns into school and kill their classmates. Other people pull alongside limos and open fire. Girls starve themselves to death because they want to fit in. They want to be pretty and thin. Because they think they are not good enough. Not pretty enough, not thin enough. They are tired of rejection and they are looking for acceptance. Every few minute's people decide that life isn't worth living and they take their life.

How can this life be worth living? How can it when hope is gone and joy is dead. When all life seems to have is problems, problems and more problems. How can life be worth living? Sometimes that question goes through my head. Then I remember that Jesus died on the cross for me. He considered me and my life worth it. Also I remember that there are a lot of people that have it worse than me. My parents are still married when so many are not. I have a roof over my head and food to eat. Yes, I do have problems and my problems they are real. They are hard but I know the problem solver and he is MY Best Friend. I can go boldly into His thrown of grace. So is life worth living????

Is life worth living? Ummm…. Sometimes it doesn't seem like it. Sometimes doubts fill my head. Fear rules and hope seems gone. At those times in my life I get on my face and before God. Then somewhere through my prayers and my tears I remember that life is worth living. God holds me as I cry and He speaks to my heart and reminds me that everything is going to be alright. At times of doubt I am also reminded of men and women in the bible like Abraham who believed in hope when there was no hope. I remember Mary the mother of Jesus and how she gave birth to the Messiah. Of Esther and how she saved her people. Ruth and how she followed after her mother-in-law. I am also reminded of the three Hebrew Children and of Daniel. I am reminded of Noah and of Moses. I also reminded of Joshua and Caleb. They went into the promise land and where the 10 said NO. Where the 10 said this is an impossible task that can't be done, there is no hope. Joshua and Caleb said GO! They saw hope and they saw that hope in God. They knew that God would be with them. So is life worth it??

Yes, life is worth it. The choice is up to me though. I have to decide like Joshua and Caleb that I am going to give a good report. I am going to choose to see the good and I will remember that God is with me and the promises He has put on my heart they will come to pass. There is good in every situation, sometimes it is just harder to find. It is always easy to complain, but if you complain then you will remain. (Some pastor once said that) It is easy to flesh out and whine and complain at how bad life is. That there is good in life. Just the fact that you wake up each morning and can get out a bed is a reason to rejoice!

Life is worth living. Yes, one day I will die and I'll be buried and maybe even forgotten on this earth. Even if everyone on earth forgets me and even if no one comes to my funeral, thats ok. God, He is never going to forget me. Even if I die all alone on this earth, God will still be right there with me. My life is worth living. If all I ever do is only see one person get saved. That is enough and my life was worth it. Because, one day that person will be in heaven for eternity and that makes life worth living.

It is now 1:15 AM. My clock is still ticking, the cars still driving by. The fridge is still humming its melody. My fingers are still typing away and my brain still thinking. Sleep is still not coming but I am going to stop rambling on now. Life is worth living no matter what problems there are. I don't want to ever be too busy or focused on me to see the world around me. I don't want to be so stuck on me that I don't see when others hurt. I want to touch a life like so many people have touched my life. I am actually going to sleep now but if anyone ever needs anything. I'll help, if they ever need to talk or vent I'll listen. Because live is worth living and I am going to shout it from the mountain tops!! It is worth it!! Before I start my shouting though I think I better sleep!!




Rom 4:18 - 21
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
KJV


Ps 37:24
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
KJV
Ps 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
KJV
Ps 145:14
14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
KJV
Ps 37:24
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
KJV
Ps 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
KJV
Ps 145:14
14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
KJV
Ps 107:28-29
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
KJV