A Life Worth Living
by Kenneth Copeland
God never intended for us, as believers, to wait until we go to heaven to start enjoying life. He never planned for us to spend our days on this earth in misery, while singing songs in church about how great life is going to be someday in the sweet by-and-by.
No. Jesus came that we might “have life, and…have it more abundantly” (John 10:10) both in the here and now and in the hereafter. As the "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition" puts it, He came that we “may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).”
People in this world who don’t know God should see us walking in so much victory that they say, “Now, that’s what I call living!” They ought to be following us around wanting to find out what our secret is.
What exactly is the secret to that kind of victorious life? It’s receiving Jesus Christ as LORD and Savior, and then following the instructions God gave us in Proverbs 3: “My son, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of a life [worth living] and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till death], these shall they add to you” (verses 1–2, "AMPC").
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