My Favorite Thing

"Most people don't care what happens, as long as they get to do their favorite thing. People don't even want to back off from their favorite thing. They won't even do their second favorite thing. You ever seen somebody in trouble... He's in the right lane. And there's a lot of cars , like 6th avenue. A lot of cars. And he wants to make that left. So what does he do? He just does it anyway. He goes at it. He shoves his car through everybody's life.Without any... And everybody's honking and outraged. And you always see the guy go, "I have to. I have to.There's no other possible thing I can do.What else could I do? Except go up one more block, and take a left and take four seconds. That's not my favorite way, though! That only meets 99% of my criteria."- Louis CK 

Growing up we always loved to do our favorite thing. We feel like we are committing blasphemy if we do anything other than that. Even if it only takes one more move or one more second. Amazing isn't it? We feel as if we shouldn't have to compromise what we want to do just because........ We never have a believable answer for that. It seem like life has a different answer for us. Life is filled with compromise. When you marry. When you have a roommate. When you have siblings. Like I said, everywhere. Even in eternal life. Now I know I sound crazy to say that their is compromise in order to get to heaven, but let me explain. God has done all he can to give us the ability to live in heaven with Him. He has put rules in place and a way to live on earth in order to get us there. He has given us His son, Jesus Christ. He's done it all. Now what have we've done? We always try to come up with ways to live how we seem fit. We get caught up in our lives, we forget to live in his image. "But that would mean we couldn't do our favorite thing!" What favorite thing? He's not asking much from us. "But he takes forever to give answers!" Let me show you why.

^{2 Peter ch.3:9} The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

^{2 Peter ch. 3:15} Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.

I remember hearing on the radio one day the most insightful story I could ever hear. Once there was a Pastor of a church and up to him came an atheist. The atheist laughed at him and said, "You are a fool to believe that there is a God and Heaven. Let me ask you this. What if you are wrong?" The pastor shook his head and answered, "Well then... What a life to have lived? God has taught us to love and how to be fruitful. My life would be full of enrichment and joy. My life would've been lived to the fullest." And the atheist was paused. "And now I ask you," the pastor said, "What if you're wrong?" Crazy right? Francis Chan quoted it best when he said to not be scared of people who can only kill your flesh, but to be scared of the One who can kill you and send you to Hell. 

Now to bring it all together. God isn't asking us to quit living. He is asking us to live right. There are things we do that we should change and we know it. Don't sacrifice eternal life for your favorite thing on Earth. You'd be surprise how little that favorite thing is. We all have vices, but with knowledge of them, we cannot allow ignorance. Don't take Jesus's power lightly. It's not walking on water or striking you down as his ultimate power. When we are in front of God and Jesus washes his hands of us and says he does not know us. Think about that. That's also true in life moments too. When you are troubled with someone, the worst thing you can do is wash your hands of them. Think about that as you go through you day and live. Happy Living to you all.