Life is not about doing "things" and being busy, busy, busy. Abundant Life is about being with Christ. "Things" that He wants done will be accomplished as one continues with Jesus. Acts 4:13 records, "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." This passage emphasized that the leaders of the Sadducees recognized that Peter and John had no special education or training in their school but were of the Galilean sect, which was looked down on as "lower classed and uneducated." Yet, they were surprised to see the boldness of Peter and John. One translation says, "and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian (lower common class of people), they were wondering—they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been— Young's Literal Translation.
Days I've spent being busy, busy, busy
Were not days really living. . .
Days when things I've accomplished plenty
Have ended with feelings empty.
Days I've followed my temporal whims
Have left me longing for Him.
Days with Jesus I have walked,
And Days with Jesus I have talked,
Have my spirit and purpose sent aloft.
So daily with Him and with my cross
I find fulfillment with no emptiness, longing, lack of living or loss. . .
Milton Gordon
2 Cor. 6:1 We then as workers together with him, beseech you that ye also receive not the grace of God in vain.
1 Thess. 5:10 Who (Jesus) died for us , that, whether we wake (live in this life) or sleep (die from this life), we should live together with him.
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