THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE

    Everyone desires to have a beautiful life here on earth, however everyone of us have our own definitions of what we think makes life beautiful. I will be focusing on what i believe a beautiful life is. Based on my studies from the word of God and some of the people who have lived here on earth, i have come to conclude that the beautiful life is a life lived on God's terms and conditions for each individual. I will use this opportunity to do an acronym of the word BEAUTIFUL.  I believe acronyms help us paint pictures of some of the things in our minds when we think of certain words. 

    Acronym for the word BEAUTIFUL. the Best life is Experienced Always when U choose to Trust God Irrespective of your Fears and U choose to Live according to His purpose for your life. 

    What is the beautiful life? It is a life that is lived according to God's purpose and will for the individual, not a live lived according to one's ambitions. Let's look at the life of our Lord Jesus. When He emerged on the scene after His baptism at River Jordan, He immediately started preaching about the kingdom of God and said that we should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness so that life's needs would be met by God. And in Matthew chapter 7:21, He made one profound statement, that it is not everyone who calls Him Lord that will enter the kingdom but only those who do the will of His Father in heaven. He was so full of the knowledge of God's will for His life that He breathed God's will at every point in time. In teaching His disciples how to pray, He said they should ask God for His will to be done on earth as it is being done in heaven. At some point He was so hungry to continue walking with His disciples, that He sat down by the well near Samaria and asked them to buy food so they could eat. When the disciples returned, they beckoned on Him to eat, but He postponed that desire so He could finish with the woman of Samaria whom He was ministering the good news at that time to. 

    The apostle Paul is another example who lived a beautiful life. Immediately he got the commission to ministry by the Lord on his way to Damascus, after Ananias prayed for him, the bible said that he began to do what he was commissioned to do. He counted his advantages with the Pharisees a loss to win his future with Christ. Even the other disciples of Jesus, they lived the beautiful life because they focused on what the will of God was for their lives.

    God's purpose for our lives is the call to the beautiful life. In this call are everything we need for life and godliness, that includes situations that may not be palatable but as long as they are in line with His purpose for us, rest assured, they will work together for our good just as the cross of Jesus and the persecutions that Paul faced all worked together for their good as they focused on living out the beautiful life that brought glory to God. Littered across the new testament especially from Matthew to John are several statements from Jesus showing us that the will of the Father is priority for our Lord. And if it is His priority, we must have it as our priority too. Check out these bible verses - Matthew 13:14, Matthew 12:50, and John 6:38, these are examples of verses that show us that Jesus was breathing the will of God, this is the beautiful life. 

    The beautiful life therefore, is a life that is lived on God's terms. He who created us has a reason for sending us into the world, and when we find out what His will is, then we can begin to live that life according to His blueprint for us. God's terms are found in the bible, His living word. So this is why we are to align with what He has written in the bible so we will be able to experience the beautiful life in 2023.