Your life.

This might be a strange question to ask, but I am sure you will understand it later on in my blog. The question is: Are you ready to die? Now stop and think, what is your response to this question. I want an honest opinion, so, if you have to, take a moment and write down what you are thinking. Okay good, now continue.
   This could cause several different responses, but most of them orient themselves around one of the two. One, you could think: "What? Why would I be ready to die? My family will miss me, I won't be able to see my friends. I have so much I want to do. Why would I want to die?" Two: "Die? Sure. My life is hard, and yea I think it would be nice to go to heaven. I mean there will be cool stuff up there and I wont need to worry anymore about what I am going to do." This is how I see it, I think you need to die, before you can live. Live for God that is, which if you are it will be the most exciting time of your life.
   Now I want you to take a moment and reflect, what was your response to the question (this is why you should have written it down). You see, the response you have semi tells you where you are on your walk with God. If you are ready to die, if your life is hard, then God can use that to help you trust him with your life. If you need help to get back up onto your feet, then all you need to do is reach up and accept God's helping hand, but there are so many people who would rather just sit where they are because they can't get back up. They would rather lay there and suffer instead of letting God pick them back up onto their feet.
   Now if you were not ready to die, then this says (now I am not a psychiatrist or anything so don't expect life changing news) that you are still holding on tightly to your worldly life. If we love our life and how we live, then how willing will we be to do what God says? This is especially the case if God wants us to leave home and go out on the mission field. I think that in order for us to live for God we need to be willing to die for him at any moment. You may think your life is going really well and that nothing could make it bad, well you are wrong. God wants you to trust him with everything and as the bible says God loves you, so he will at first nicely nudge you in a way to basically say 'trust me with everything.' If you listen right then, then you would have saved yourself a lot of trouble. If you ignore his nudges, then (Just to let you know, this will not always be the case, none of it will necessarily go like this, but I think this is common enough that it is worth mentioning) God can allow your life to fall apart, and will continue to let it crumble until finally you put your undying trust in him.
   If you are going through hard times. If you are going through something that you find as unfair, then praise God. Because it is most likely a test, that God has allowed to happen so that you will follow what he wants you to do and believe me resisting will only make things worse. If you are going through anything like this, don't get angry at God, praise him. For he has chosen you for something that is so amazing you could only imagine what it will be like.
   So let me ask you the question one more time: Are you ready to die?