{"id":265,"date":"2021-10-25T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:05:33","slug":"life-here-is-to-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Life here is to short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fall has come yet again to my neck of the woods. This morning I saw the mist lifting and the sun shining through the thin vail. It was a magical moment of pure beauty. I could feel God close by, it was so intense those short seconds that I looked but what I felt was not only his presence but his breath. I know it might sound crazy but that was the feeing I had. That is how close I felt to Abba for a few seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+73%3A28&amp;version=ESV\">Psalm 73:28<\/a>\u00a0ESV <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord&nbsp;God&nbsp;my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get one life here on earth. Make the best of it and choose carefully, because how you choose here will determind where you spend eternety. God will not make that choice, just as he did not make any other choices for you. Only you can make that choice in how you live here and now. Tomorrow has not yet been written, so do not leave what you can do today wait, because you do not know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James+4%3A13-17&amp;version=ESV\">James 4:13-17<\/a>\u00a0ESV <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Come now, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit\u201d\u2014 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, \u201cIf the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.\u201d As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/moss-on-logg-and-mist-kopia-2048x1359.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall has come yet again to my neck of the woods. This morning I saw the mist lifting and the sun shining through the thin vail. It was a magical moment of pure beauty. I could feel God close by, it was so intense those short seconds that I looked but what I felt was not only his presence but his breath. I know it might sound crazy but that was the feeing I had. That is how close I felt to Abba for a few seconds. Psalm 73:28\u00a0ESV But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord&nbsp;God&nbsp;my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. We get one life here on earth. Make the best of it and choose carefully, because how you choose here will determind where you spend eternety. God will not make that choice, just as he did not make any other choices for you. Only you can make that choice in how you live here and now. Tomorrow has not yet been written, so do not leave what you can do today wait, because you do not know. James 4:13-17\u00a0ESV Come now, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit\u201d\u2014 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 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