YOLO

Matthew 6:33 “Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out.”

     Many days I wonder if God has me working at a college just to have a storehouse of quirky stories.  Without fail, there is always something random happening.  There was a new phrase I heard students using, “YOLO.” I had no clue what it meant and I tried deciphering it with my fancy texting lingo skills but was unsuccessful.  I caved and finally asked my boyfriend what in the world “YOLO” meant.  He replied with, “You only live once.”  Isn’t that the truth? Man, if it were true that cats had nine lives I would hold one at gun point and make it give me a few.  Being able to go back and start life over again would be an amazing opportunity.  We don’t have that luxury.  Most often what I find at college are students wanting to get the most out of life for themselves.  Only going to school to appease parents and then giving it minimal effort so they can spend more time on other things they think are the most important.  As we age, all of us have things we wish we wouldn’t have spent so much time on and things we wish we would have spent more time on.  Every day you live is a day you can’t get back after it’s gone.  Are you going to spend it trying to get away with as much as possible? Or are you going to get out of the garbage called immaturity and spend your every waking moment seeing how much you can give God?  You know, you hear all the time, doctors telling people they have 6 months to live or two weeks to live or even a day to live.  None of us know if we’re going to be alive tomorrow.  Life can be snatched from us quicker than a computer can process information.  Rabbi Samuel Silver once said, “The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today, but we can improve if we make use of the potential implanted in us by God.” YOLO.

Acts 17:26 “Starting from scratch, He made the entire human race and made the earth hospitable, with plenty of time and space for living so we could seek after God.”