Living Life on the Edge

Tomorrow, our baby girl, Kaylah will be turning 4 years old and I really can't believe how time has just flown by! It made me contemplate that in essence, we are all living life on the edge of something greater than ourselves more often than I, myself perceive and/or appreciate ... looking at Kaylah, I see that she's on the edge of turning 4 years old ie. no longer being considered a baby, she's on the edge of starting Kindergarten which represents a whole new phase of her life ie. school, she's on the edge of a steep learning curve, she's on the edge of forging new, hopefully life long friendships, she's on the edge of all the potential and capacity she has within her to move in directions that fascinate and interest her, she's on the edge of independence, she's on the edge of separation and ... so much more ... I could go on ...

I'm on the edge of things in my life too and daily I have choices to make about the kind of person I want to be, the life I want to live, the example I want to set for my kids and others around me ... and so much more ... yet above all, if God is not sovereign in my life, then everything is meaningless and without value and intrinsically useless for all of it will pass away.

I recently started learning Memory Verses again and this is my first one ... a challenge no less to put into practical application.

Do Not Love the World

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life[c]—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2 : 15-17)

Are you living on the edge of your life, wondering what it all means? Look to Jesus for hope and peace for when that edge no longer drives you forward, do have assurance of where you will be?