Today I visited the LIFELOVEMUSIC Clothing website to see how it was doing. I realized that our blog was pretty lacking so made a mental note to write a blog. I added it to the list of about 100000 other things I “need to do” this week. And then it got me thinking. Why do I need to write a blog? Why am I doing any of the things that I think I so desperately need to get done. Life is busy if we allow it to be. But the question is, what are you living for? At the end of your life we will be judged on how we have loved. Not on how much we got done. How much we achieved. What kind of car we drove. What type of job we have. We will be judged on how we loved God and how we loved others. And by loving God, I dont just mean the warm fuzzies for the old man living up in heaven. The Bible says, if You love me, obey me. Our obedience is a good indicator of our love for God. If we say we love God and hate our brother, then we’ve gotten off track somewhere. Truly loving God by putting our faith into action in our every day lives.

I want to encourage you guys to stop. For 5 minutes. Turn off your phone. Log out of Facebook. No TV, music, noise. and just evaluate your life. If even the thought of that scares you, maybe you need to do it more often. But seriously, still everything around you and evaluate your life. What do you spend your time doing? What are you giving your heart to? What is valuable and precious to you? Imagine you just died and your looking back on your life story. What kind of story did you tell? Was it all about you? Or did you give yourself to other people? was it a story boring and spent watching other people live an adventure in a movie. Or did you take risk in your life? Did you step out in ways you’ve always thought would be great but always felt too scared to do? Be radical. Pursue God with your whole heart. Be obedient when you feel Him lead you to do things. You will never regret it. Remember this life wont last forever. One of my favorite quotes is from the movie Gladiator. “What we do in this life echoes in eternity”. Think about it. What will be echoing the rest of eternity because of your action. Will it be Love? Will it be obedience to God? Or will it be mistakes? Wasted time? Regrets? If that, then stop now. Go to God and ask for forgiveness for living the way you have. And then simply start living for Him. He’s a gracious God and is so quick to forgive. His heart for you is Love. Deeper than we can imagine. And He has a purpose for you in this life. We just need to tune in and find out what it is. And once you do that, you realize why you were created. To love and serve Him.
Sorry for my ramblings, I hope this is encouraging to you all.

We Must Be The Change

Benjamin Judah