LIFE is meant to be lived.  And it is meant to be lived with great passion and joy.  I think all of us would say that.  I mean what good is it to just get up each day and go through the motions?

 

I think all of us face this reality each and every day……and there is a battle being waged on how we can do just that…..

 

You see, where I live, we have legalized marijuana.  And while we can go back and forth on legal and political issues, I am going to argue in the arena of the spiritual and say:  Just because something is legal doesn’t make it what we need to do.

 

You see, we live in a society where we have a pill, or a cure, for everything.  Even in the medical field we sometimes try to stop the symptoms and leave out the root of the problem.

 

I urge you:  Don’t Do It.

 

Solomon gave us this message 3000 years ago in Ecclesiastes 2:

 

10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;

I refused my heart no pleasure.

My heart took delight in all my work,

and this was the reward for all my labor.

11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done

and what I had toiled to achieve,

everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;

nothing was gained under the sun.

 

And it is the same today.  If we truly “deny ourselves nothing” and chase after all that we could ever have…..it won’t solve the problem or be the cure for the issue.

 

And that’s because the we don’t get to have the answers, we get to have the Answer.

 

And that Answer is Jesus.

 

Don’t take a pill….say a prayer

Don’t numb the pain…cry

Don’t avoid the work…grind it out

Don’t duck out on the problem and run away…fix it

 

The Lord came down here to give His life to be with us…..and when I get mad and say:

 

“Why don’t you come down here and feel what it is like to be on this earth?”

“Why don’t you go through this pain so you know what it feels like?”

“Why don’t you come and FIX THIS?”

 

I am here to testify today–that in the person of Jesus:  

He Did.  He Has.  And He Will.

 

I pray that He will come and help you deal with all that burdens you……because the harder things are…..the more that we truly need to have Him……

 

So cry out and ask for help…….He’s Got You.

 

In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.