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Listen carefully:  Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat.  But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over.  In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is, destroys that life.  But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal.  If any of you wants to serve me, then follow me.  Then you'll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment's notice.  The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me.    John 12:24-26 MSG

Learn to do good;  Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. 
   Isaiah 1:17 NASB
Yesterday at church our Pastor started a new series in Ecclesiastes, it's the book of the Bible where Solomon starts out by saying that everything is "meaningless, meaningless, utterly meaningless, everything is meaningless."  Gosh, really Solomon?  Because I don't feel that way, do you?  Fortunately, that was the whole point of the sermon, that NO everything is not meaningless, the original text uses the word 'hebel' which translates to a vapor or a puff of air.  So the point of the message was that our life is but a puff of air!  We long to manage and hold on to our lives but who can hold on to air and vapors?  We try desperately to save it for next week or next year but that's not possible, we will only exhaust ourselves and be disappointed.  So at the end of the message I was left with the serious question (which is also the title of the whole sermon series), "what is the point?"  

The point is.... let go, love God and love people now.  Ahora mismo (right now).

Like the verse above says, anyone who holds on to life as it is, destroys that life.  But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, REAL and ETERNAL.  I want a real life.


 
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