Five Generations

Just the other night I was searching through some of my 3.5" floppy disks looking for some files I had stored, when I came across some disks with pictures on them from Christmas 1998! I spent some time just looking at all the pictures and came across the one I included above. Pictured from the bottom left, up, across, and back down are my Grandmother Adams, my Mother, my brother John, his daughter Angel, and Angel's firstborn daughter, Shaina. We had a great time that year. I am glad they took this picture, since another five-generation picture from mother's side of the family will not be possible until my brother John is a great-grandfather. Things change so quickly! James wrote in James 4:13-14,

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to
this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and
make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen
tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears
for a little while and then vanishes.

We need to drink deeply from the cup of life that God has given to us. Regrets spring from neglect and not from time we spend with Mom or Grandma. Solomon wrote in Proverb 27:1,

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

That being the case we need to begin living the abundant life that Jesus said he came to provide for us. In fact, He said that is the reason he came in John 10:10.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

This morning I want to challenge you to live your life just that way, to the fullest! We never know when overwhelming changes may come to us. Make the most of God's promise of abundant life, by living it in Him everyday!