Do You want to live a GOOD LIFE?

A good Life? I guess it all depends in what you consider GOOD for you. For the drunkard a good life could be having all the booze he needs to be satisfied, fall on the floor, “have fun” and stink, wasting his life. I imagine that the same goes for the other addicts who need the whatever substance to feel good and if that substance is expensive they become thieves first to make the salesman rich and turn into the ones rejected by many who desire to make something wise of themselves. And with that I don’t mean they are “bad.” They are, simply, people who were badly deceived to have a life wasted in the decay of the fallen world led by the adversary, who made us heir of his envy of God. That is why God wanted to cleanse us as his loving creation despite the many who want to teach that His commandments are a yoke to our “freedom”, when it is the other way around. He wants to give us LIFE and not death that is why HE came to pay our debt, and anyone who believes this can have life now, and after we pass on too, because He promised it, and we have seen His promises fulfilled. I know that we are all different, and may have diverse points of view depending on the way we were brought up, and the lived experiences, but the believers know that a Good Life (satisfaction wise) can only be given by the person who gives his own up for us, and that is what Jesus Christ came for, to free us from the poison our adversary wants to condemn us with, ungodliness; reason for which there are so many, in fact all of us are sinners:…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3. 23 ) That is why if we want to live a Good Life, and have our family live it too, we must take root into the Rock which is Jesus who paid our price and died in this world, but rose up and is seating at the right hand of God (Mark 16.19c) to come back and rescue us. When I was a child I learned a song in Sunday School that taught the words of Jesus in Mathew 7.24 (the two foundations) to build your house upon the Rock. That same principle was in the story of the Three Little Pigs, when they used to tell stories that built wisdom. The adversary is fighting to distort the way with disobedience, but in order to live a Good Life in which we can enjoy the Peace Jesus left us (John 14.27) we must follow God’s commandments. A godly man who was once wrong but had to go through a lot to realize what a real good life cost, Paul, apostle, told his helper: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior; Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession zealous for good deeds (Titus 2. 11-14) He also said: ”For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians1.21) The more we praise Wordly Desires the faster we are calling the END of them.