MAINTAINING A HEALTHY PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE {PART 1}

I once heard a preacher say that the summation of life is obtaining salvation for yourself and helping as many others as you can to obtain salvation. If you don’t put life in perspective, you will discover that it is empty. When you take the time to think about life outside of God, you will see that all the things we chase have no meaning. Without God, we are nothing. It is what Jesus has done for us that gives our lives meaning and makes it worth living. 

It’s good to maintain a healthy perspective of life. Most people spend their lives chasing after things that mean nothing in the long run. Eventually, we find that our lives are centered on so many mundane things and we forget the things that are worth living for. Life cannot be lived with material and superficial things at the centre – shoes, money, clothes and the like. Life is beyond all this. You should be able to identify with a vision that matters to you; something that goes beyond you and transcends material things. 

Your life should have a meaning beyond things. Your life should have meaning beyond self – what I should get, what I shall eat, what I shall wear, what I should have. Don’t be that person who is totally self-centered and has no compassion for the next person. Be a blessing to people beyond what you can get in return in terms of appreciation, acknowledgment or fame.

- Pastor Adah Igah