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“Rob” Evans is a Christian children’s songwriter and performer best known as The Donut Man. Perhaps you have heard of him? I had the joy of working with him some 40 years ago in a VBS in New Kensington, PA as he was just starting out. He wrote a song about life: “Life is like a donut, like a donut; like a donut, life is like a donut, there’s a hole in the middle of your heart. You might be okay for a while, then the truth will wipe away your smile….”
Here in Florida, filled with retirees, I see unhappy faces, a great many unhappy faces.
We know only Jesus can fill that hole. God created us. With purpose, with a destiny. With Jesus, we can fulfill His destiny for us. Without Jesus, it’s just not the same fulfillment. Even for the successful by this world’s standards, even for famous scientists without Jesus. Who knows what further, greater, discoveries, what destinies they may have had had they known Jesus.
There’s something more than just knowing Jesus, and that is to live our lives as though He is coming back soon. The blessed hope of our salvation. We find that in several places of Scripture. Like the faithful servant of Matthew 24:45-51 versus the evil or faithless servant recorded there.
The faithful one lives as though his master may return that day. For us, we might say being faithful to put off the old, put on the new, allowing the fruit of the Spirit to grow in us, shunning the works of the flesh, walking worthy of the Lord, growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord.
The unfaithful one is a believer but in name only. That one today may even go to church every Sunday but live like an unbeliever the other 167 hours of the week. You know what? That person is wasting their life! Forsaking true life, they are squandering the precious gift of life, hurting themselves, hurting others, and accumulating a world of — regret.
“Don’t be that person,” says Jesus. “Don’t lose sight of me and waste your life.”
No one sets out to waste their lives, but this is what happens when we live independently of the Author of Life. As Paul Ellis notes, when we try and write our own story, without input from Jesus, we write inferior stories. Even if our lives have the appearance of success, they leave us empty and unfulfilled.
We were not made to live disconnected from Jesus. Stay connected dear friend, live IN Him; give Him full reign in your life. You’ll truly — COME ALIVE!
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