Just Let Me Live My Life!

Just Let Me Live My Life!

And do what?

If you have not done anything worthy of success, then what can you brag about? Let me answer that for you... NOTHING!
All to often people want to give others their opinion, and they have not achieved anything in life noteworthy of giving good opinions. Steve Job once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” 
This is a very profound statement, and one that we all can learn from. We should all know by now that life is what you make it out to be. And if you had any common sense at all (and not all sense is common) then you would be finding out all there is to know about living the successful life that God has purposed for you.
What have you done to achieve any level of spiritual success? Not worldly success. I am talking about a success that God has miraculously produced in and around your life. Those types of successes that people are so amazed at, because they had already said you would not amount to anything. Based on their own assessment of you.
People do not have a right to assess who you are, or how your life will turn out. Who gave them that authority? Did you? Certainly not God. When God has placed His hand on you and covered you with His blessings, no one will ever be able to remove it.
The Bible is full of God's promises. And one promise that you should be aware of is that when you obey Him there is nothing He would not do for you. David instructed his son Solomon countless times. Because he wanted him to be more spiritually successful than himself. And in one of his instructions he said, “And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;” (1 Kings 2:3).
What a great word of advice. King David simply told Solomon his formula in order to be successful in life. And it is the same advice and formula for us today, “Follow God and obey Him.” You just can't “live your life”, because there will always be someone to tell you what you can or cannot do. I mean, you can live your own life, but there are certain boundaries, even in the world, that will remind you that you just can't do whatever it is you want to do just because you are grown. There are laws in place to make sure you stay within those boundaries.
David could have taught his son that life was about conquering his enemies and acquiring all types of material riches in his treasury, he was the king. And in most cases over history that's what many kings did. But David knew from his own experiences with God that there was more to life than material goods and worldly status. In Matthew 6:21 it says, “Where your treasure is, there also is your heart.”
So when you hear or make the comment, “Just let me live my life” what you are in essence saying is “let me just mess it up, I know more than God, what is best for me.” You could not be more wrong. You want to live your life? Than live it according to God's Word and His plans for you. People will tell you to dream big. But what is the course of action in dreaming big when there is no spiritual foundation in what you expect to happen when dreaming big?
As a follower of Christ you must expect something better in life than what the world promises. Nothing wrong in wanting to be rich. Nothing wrong in wanting a better or bigger house. But in all of that wanting, how much of it is wanting to be more like Christ and what He truly wants for you? At least have all that wanting prioritized, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36).
It would be messed up that you obtained all those riches, and gathered all those material goods, and end up losing your soul to hell, just because you left God out of the equation. 
So go ahead, live your life! But don't leave God out of all that living.
Be sure to pick up a copy of my new book, Pathway to Christ and learn how to walk this life the way He wants you to walk it.





Resources: 
(S. Jobs, 2011) 11 Life Lessons to Learn. Retrieved from https://personalexcellence.co/blog/steve-jobs/

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