I stand to be corrected

So many statements have been formed to describe life. Some say life is a game, life is a journey, life is short, and life is what you make it among many others. However, it is up to you and me to choose what to believe.

For me, life is very unpredictable! One time you happy the next you sad and lonely. One time you have everything you need the next you have nothing. It is just as they say life is short and therefore make use of it. Life is short is one statement I don’t get. Yes life is short yet people live even more than a hundred years before their death. More so others live shorter! So can you still say life is short!? For me I think life is unpredictable and so live each day as it comes.

Even the Holy scriptures tells us not to worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself since each day has enough trouble of its own (Matt. 6:34). Many of us live to toil and moil for the future they never get to see. Few others just live to toil to get enough for the day and live to see the future they never anticipated. However, I stand to be corrected.

Today a lot is happening. People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. Church leaders are betraying their congregation by engaging in ungodly acts. Just to mention but a few. And yes with all these happenings we still need not to worry!

However, we are not made of steel. We are human beings and for that reason we are subjected to worry due to the many things that happen to us. But the way we handle our worries is what matters most. Worrying can be helpful when it spurs you to take action and solve a problem. But if you are preoccupied with “what ifs” and worst-case scenarios, worry becomes a problem. Therefore, what should we do to obey the scriptures by not worrying?

Just as I began by saying life is unpredictable, we should stop predicting our future based on the kind of life we live at the present. This is because no one knows what tomorrow holds. Let’s take each day as it comes and be grateful.  Above all let’s read and obey the Scriptures (depending on our beliefs) to have more knowledge and understanding of how we should live.  

Adios