LIFE WASTING
Tempus fugit is a Latin expression meaning "time flees", more commonly translated as "time flies". It is frequently used as an inscription on clocks. The expression was first recorded in the poem Georgics written by Roman poet Virgil: Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore, which means, "But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail."
In English, the expression — either in the Latin (tempus fugit) or English form ("time flies") — is proverbial, generally with the intended sense, "Time's a-wasting". As such, it expresses concern that one's limited time is being consumed by nothing in particular or by something which may have little intrinsic substance, importance, or urgency. It can also mean that time seems to pass very quickly, or without notice, such as in the phrase "Time flies when you are having fun."
7 Ways to Stop Wasting Life and Start Living It
8 Ways You’re Wasting Your Life
7 Ways to Stop Wasting Life and Start Living It
We’ve all heard that life is short. There’s just not enough time to do everything that we’d like to do.
I know I still have a lot of things I still want to accomplish before I die. It sometimes seems never-ending.
But the problem isn’t that life is too short. It’s usually because we’re not using the time we’re given effectively.
No matter how you look at it, there are only 24 hours in
a day. We have to fill that time doing something. Instead of wasting that
time, we should be living it.
Here are some ways to make sure you’re using your time living life to the fullest.
1. Question how you’re spending your time
Steve Jobs once said that he asked one question to himself every single day.
“If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I’m about to do today?”
If the answer was no for too many days in a row, he knew he needed to make a change.
I’ve adopted this habit. I’ve asked myself that very question every morning for months. It causes you to search your thoughts and feelings in ways you might not like.
The great thing about this is that you have to acknowledge when you’ve said no for too long. It’s easy to shrug each day off if you never ask the question. But when you’ve said no for a long time, it becomes harder to ignore.
2. Quit your awful job
A typical eight hour job takes up 1/3 of your daily life. If you’re spending all that time at a job you hate, you’re wasting your life.
I know it’s hard to find a job you’re passionate about and we all have to earn money somehow. However if you’re going to a job you absolutely can’t stand, you need to make a change.
There are also those people who put in 60-70 hour work weeks. If you love your job it can be worthwhile, but you have to acknowledge that this is a lot of your free time. It’s not leaving you time to do much of anything else.
No matter how much you love your job, you should make time for other things. Life has a lot of great things to offer: places to explore, people to meet and works of art to enjoy. If you’re spending all your time in the office, you’ll miss out on a lot of it.
3. Cut out your negative influences
Are there certain people in your life that drain your energy, fill you with doubt or generally bring you down? These are your negative influences.
Some people just have a bad view of the world. To them, nothing good will happen so why even try. No matter what you do, you’ll never change the negative circumstances.
They’ll try to get you to see the world just like them. And when you do, you’ll start to wonder why you bother doing anything.
The next thing you know, you’re spending all your time in a bad mood and telling yourself why you can’t do something.
Sometimes it’s best to just cut those negative influences out so you can get the most out of your life.
4. Look at the legacy you’re creating
One day in the distant future, you’re going to wake up on your 80th birthday. As you look back on the life you’ve lived are you going to like what you see?
That’s the question I ask myself all the time. Nothing motivates me more than the thought that I will wish I had done something, but never did.
Every day we’re creating our legacy – the things we’ll remember. What we have to ask ourselves is if what we’re creating is something we’ll be proud of. Will we wish we had done things differently or taken some chances?
It’s better to ask those questions now instead of years in the future.
5. Start something big
We all have a big goal we’d like to do “someday”. Why not make someday happen today?
The more you push it off, the more likely you’re making it that it will never happen.
Waiting for the right time to do it is time that’s wasted; perfect times rarely happen so you might as well do it while you can.
I’ve spent a lot of time around older people. If there is a common regret they have it is this: they wish they had done that big goal when they were younger. They simply put it off until it was too late. Don’t let this happen to you.
6. Analyze and reorganize your downtime
What exactly are you doing with your free time? Have you given it much thought?
It’s surprising how much of our day we waste simply because we don’t know how we’re spending that time.
I remember when I first started watching my free time; I estimated that I watched only a couple of hours of TV every week. However, when I actually started tracking it, I realized it was closer to 10-15 hours.
That’s a huge difference!
It’s deceptive because you only do a little at a time. You forget about some of them and it makes you think you’re doing much less than you actually are.
Keep a rough estimate of how you spend your free time and see if there is a time-wasting activity that takes up a lot of your free time.
Then make a conscious effort to do less of it by replacing it with a better activity. Next time you start doing it, you’ll remember to stop doing it and replace it with the other thing.
7. Create an action plan for the next few years
Every couple of years, I make a plan for where I want my life to head. It’s just a set of about 10-12 things that I want to see happen soon.
It’s not exactly like a bucket list although there are some bucket list elements to it.
A bucket list would be a list of something I want to accomplish over my entire life. This list is something I want to accomplish within the next few years.
The items on the list might be something simple like some budget/financial goal or donating some of my stuff to de-clutter my apartment. They might be bigger like quitting a job or a big travel goal.
Whatever it is, I try to make them all happen. That way
I feel like life is on the right track and I’m always doing things I want to be
doing.
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Matt Gibson
How to Stop Wasting Your Life
Edited by Genie983, Rougie, MA, Scarlet.pirate and 3 others
Many people seem to take a break from life - and many seem to forget to get back in life again. Living is living for something, not living without doing anything, or doing something you don't enjoy, or that won't bring you anywhere. Most important is - you need to think. Be independent, trust your instinct, and you need to care for yourself and want the best for your life. This article will give you inspiration on how to stop wasting your life.
Steps
1
Have a healthy hobby. Having a hobby is good, unless it's something you spend so much time on, that you forget to do other things. A healthy hobby is something you do when you have the time, when you are not doing anything else.
- There's many ways to express yourself with a hobby - painting, singing, playing music, knitting, creating games online, writing articles, baking. The options are infinite, you just need to find something you can enjoy doing.
- This will keep you productive and happy, even when you are bored.
2
Be inspired by yourself. Love yourself, be happy with who you are - if you spend your time being unsatisfied with something you can't change about yourself, you will be wasting time that you could have spent happy. And it's spent on nothing!
- Learn how to love every single detail on you - and if you are really unhappy about something, do what you can to improve it! Be inspired by your life, do thing that seem unachievable, be a great person, be the best at something, this will make you think that you are great and invincible!
3
Love your job. You spend almost every day on your job. It has to be someplace that you like, because the job is something that is most likely to pull you down. And if you don't like your job, you will be wasting time doing what you don't enjoy. Nothing makes that worth it.
- Search your options on a new job, if it's impossible, do what you can to begin liking your job!
- Take a talk with your boss, if he/she's your problem.
- If the problem is colleagues, then do something to bring you closer together! You could bring donuts or cupcakes to work every week, or have a party, or celebrate someones birthday when that chance comes by.
4
Love your family. Learn to be grateful for your family - they are there for you, they are close to you, they love you and they want your best. If not, they wouldn't be there. You have to do something for those you love - you partner; give her/him new, exciting experiences, your kids; make them know you love them, by spending time with them, your parents; send them a mail, just letting them know you are okay and that you miss them.
- Do what you can, to give everyone their attention and part of your heart, they will feel special and it will pay back in a good way for you. And you will feel good that you are doing something for the better in your life.
5
Have friends. Socializing is important, since human beings are social creatures. Call a long-time-no-see friend, ask them to come for dinner or for a cup of tea, a beer or a piece of cake. Re-create bonds that you have lost with time, introduce your friends to each other and to your family. You will be starting a network of friendly bonds, and this will take a great deal of your time that you maybe used to spend alone or doing something that you felt bored about.
- Remember not to create conflict, make sure everyone is feeling good about each other, without hard feelings of jealousy, envy or any other bad feeling. If such thing occurs, talk to your friends, and do what you can to make it good again.
6
Learn something new everyday. Learning keeps our brain exercised, and healthy and more prone to think over thing in daily life. You don't have to spend a lot of time doing this, just rent/buy a book about something that you don't know much about, such as history, biology, or about something like cars, or horses, or how to dance or sing.
- This will eventually give you many new skills that you can enjoy, and spend time with, when you are alone or bored.
Tips
- Care about your best - if you know you are in a place and you'd rather be somewhere else, then change your life, do what makes you happy.
- Try to spend some time in a new place, maybe take a trip to another country with your family or friends.
- Begin noticing the small things in life, such as the nature, your pets, the science channel or something a like that you didn't notice before.
- Begin a new habit, such as exercising regularly, or eating more healthy.
Warnings
- Don't let anyone bring you down.
- Don't ignore your economy.
- Talk with people if any conflict builds up.
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Categories: Personal Care and StyleRecent edits by: Carolyn Barratt, Elizabeth Knudsen, Scarlet.pirate
8 Ways You’re Wasting Your Life
One of the hardest challenges we face in life is to simply live in our own skin – to just be right here, right now, regardless of where we are. Too often we needlessly distract ourselves with anything and everything: food, booze, shopping, television, tabloid news, online social networks, video games, cell phones, iPods, etc. – basically anything to keep us from being fully present in the current moment.
We use compulsive work, compulsive exercise, compulsive love affairs, and the like, to escape from ourselves and the realities of living. In fact, many of us will go to great lengths to avoid the feeling of being alone in an undistracted environment. So we succumb to hanging-out with just about anybody to avoid the feeling of solitude. For being alone means dealing with our true feelings: fear, anxiety, happiness, anger, joy, resentment, disappointment, anticipation, sadness, excitement, despair, and so on and so forth.
And it doesn’t really matter if our feelings are positive or negative – they are overwhelming and exhausting, and so we prefer to numb ourselves to them. The bottom line is that every one of us is an addict, and what we are addicted to is avoiding ourselves. Acknowledging this addiction is the first step to healing it. So begin today by just noticing with curiosity, and without judgment, all of the ways in which you avoid being in your own skin, right here, right now, in this present moment we call life.
Here are eight reasons so many of us miss out on life as it’s happening.
- The fear of missing out. – If you feel anxious because you constantly feel like you’re missing out on something happening somewhere else, you’re not alone. We all feel this way sometimes. But let me assure you, you could run around trying to do everything, and travel around the world, and always stay connected, and work and party all night long without sleep, but you could never do it all. You will always be missing something. So let it go, and realize you have everything right now. The best in life isn’t somewhere else; it’s right where you are, at this moment. Celebrate the perhaps not altogether insignificant fact that you are alive right now. This moment, and who you are, is absolutely perfect. Take a deep breath, smile, and notice how lovely it is. Read The Power of Now.
- Avoiding pain and defeat. – Not to spoil the ending for you, but everything is going to be OK – you just need to learn a lesson or two first. Don’t run from the realities of the present moment. The pain and defeat contained within is necessary to your long-term growth. Remember, there is a difference between encountering defeats and being defeated. Nothing ever goes away until it teaches you what you need to know, so you can move on to the next step.
- Holding on to what’s no longer there. – Some of us spend the vast majority of our lives recounting past memories, and letting them steer the course of the present. Don’t waste your time trying to live in another time and place. Let the past, go. You must accept the end of something in order to begin to build something new. So close some old doors today. Not because of pride, inability or egotism, but simply because you’ve entered each one of them in the past and realize that they lead to nowhere.
- Retelling a self-defeating story. – If we continue to repeat a story in our head, we eventually believe that story and embrace it – whether it empowers us or not. So the question is: Does your story empower you? Don’t place your mistakes on your mind, their weight may crush your current potential. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as a platform to view the horizon. Remember, all things are difficult before they are easy. What matters the most is what you start doing now. Read Awaken the Giant Within.
- Attempting to fit in by becoming someone else. – The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be you, just the way you are in this moment. We cannot find ourselves if we are always searching for, or morphing into, someone else. In this crazy world that’s trying to make you like everyone else, find the courage to keep being your awesome self. Be your own kind of beautiful right now, in the way only you know how.
- The picture in your head of how it’s supposed to be. – What often screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be. Although every good thing has an end, in life every ending is just a new beginning. Life goes on – not always the way we had envisioned it would be, but always the way it’s supposed to be. Remember, we usually can’t choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. Read The Last Lecture.
- Berating yourself for not being perfect. – Don’t be too hard on yourself. There are plenty of people willing to do that for you. Do your best and surrender the rest. Tell yourself, “I am doing the best I can with what I have in this moment. And that is all I can expect of anyone, including me.” Love yourself and be proud of everything that you do, even your mistakes. Because even mistakes mean you’re trying.
- Waiting, and then waiting some more. – Stop waiting for tomorrow; you will never get today back. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past. It doesn’t matter how low or unworthy you feel right now. The simple fact that you’re alive makes you worthy. Life is too short for excuses. Stop settling. Stop procrastinating. Start today by taking one courageous step forward. If you are not sure exactly which way to go, it is always wise to follow your heart.
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Quotes About Wasting Time
Quotes tagged as "wasting-time" (showing 1-23 of 3,000)
“There's never enough time to do all
the nothing you want.”
―
Bill Watterson
tags: idleness, time, wasting-time
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as
long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does
time come to life.”
―
William Faulkner,
The Sound and the Fury
tags: life, time, wasting-time
“In my story you're the villain. But
in my heart, you're still the reigning King.”
―
Coco J. Ginger
tags: addiction, addicts, adventure, art, being, believe, breaking-rules, breaking-up, breakups, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, chance, chaos, creativity, crushes, discovery, fairy-tales, faith, friends, friendship, future, games, good-morning, happiness, hate, history, ideas, identity, inspirational, journal, journaling, journalist, life, liking-someone, living, loss, love, love-at-first-sight, love-hate-relationship, love-hurts, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-quarrels, lovers-sadness, mean, moving-on, passion, past, players, precious-moments, remember, risk, self-help, stories, story, truths, villains, wasting-time, writer, writers-block, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes, writers-world, writing, writing-books, writing-life, writing-process, writing-style, youth-age
“The proper function of man is to
live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall
use my time.”
―
Jack London
tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time
“Your hand can seize today, but not
tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this
breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last
forever.”
―
Omar Khayyám,
Quatrains - Ballades
tags: carpe-diem, desire, future, life, present, thoughts, time, today, tomorrow, wasting-time
“...I know I’ve broken all the rules
of all the games, that all the great players and best love calculators recommend
that you play, if you want to make someone like you a lot. But that’s okay,
because I give up. I’ve got my coffee sitting in my San Francisco cup, I’ve got
Kona island and a working beating heart that’s not cold, hard, or numb—very
workable and capable of loving, breaking, mending and repeating. So that’s just
what I’ll do. Because I’m too tired. Too tired uping all nighting wasting my
precious timing wishing it was your heart pumping, wanting me— like I used to
want you.”
―
Coco J. Ginger
tags: addiction, addicts, adventure, art, being, believe, breaking-rules, breaking-up, breakups, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, chance, chaos, creativity, crushes, discovery, faith, friends, friendship, future, games, good-morning, happiness, hate, history, ideas, identity, inspirational, journal, journaling, journalist, life, liking-someone, living, loss, love, love-at-first-sight, love-hurts, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-quarrels, lovers-sadness, moving-on, passion, past, players, precious-moments, remember, risk, self-help, stories, truths, wasting-time, writer, writers-block, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes, writers-world, writing, writing-books, writing-life, writing-process, writing-style, youth-age
“Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who
can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most
wise to start today.”
―
Rasheed Ogunlaru
tags: decision-making, delay, fear, future, haste, inspiring-quotes, living-in-the-moment, past, perfectionism, perfectionist, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-things-off, rasheed-ogunlaru, regret, the-here-and-now, timing, waiting, wasting-time, worry
“Worry is like a rocking chair-it
keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
―
Katie Dale,
Someone Else's Life
tags: boredom, wasting-time, worry
“Your time is way too valuable to be
wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”
―
Turcois Ominek
tags: attitude-toward-life, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-lessons, self-love, values, wasting-time
“All the greatest blessings are a
source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is
best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of
the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For
everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises,
the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings
pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the
life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By
great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have
attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return.”
―
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
tags: anxiety, blessings, chance, good-fortune, life, luck, prayers, prosperity, time, wasting-time
“Given the ease with which health
infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals
away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time
itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no
memory, no trace at all.”
―
Elisabeth Tova Bailey,
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
tags: disease, illness, inspirational, life, life-changing, meaning, overcoming-adversity, spiritual-development, wasting-time, weakness, wisdom
“When you spend time worrying, you’re
simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
tags: anxiety, fear, get-over-it, harmless-people, harmless-situations, imagination, joy, live-life, move-on, not-as-bad-as-you-think, paranoia, peace, wasting-time, worry, worry-wart
“It was understood that they shared
the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for
discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in
particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over
pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There
was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And
on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a
day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.”
―
Galt Niederhoffer,
The Romantics
tags: appetite, books, cruel, discussing, dissecting, driving, ideas, kind, laughing, listening, listening-to-music, lofty, music, nowhere, obsessing, occasions, pop-culture, rare, reconnect, shared, talking, things, thresholds, tire, together, trivial, understood, wasting-time, yearned
“Stop wasting your time looking for
the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.”
―
Steve Maraboli,
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
tags: happiness, inspirational, life, wasting-time
“So, whenever you find yourself
putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something
that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a destructive waste of time. And
if that isn't enough to keep in mind, your techniques must always be allowed to
evolve and change, in relationships, in life, in science, in society. Otherwise
you stagnate, and you won't get anywhere in the long run... You know what the
philosopher Aldous Huxley said? He said 'Consistency is contrary to nature,
contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
―
Tony Vigorito,
Just a Couple of Days
tags: success, wasting-time
“It is named the "Web" for good
reason.”
―
David Foster Wallace
tags: wasting-time
“He did not waste time in a vain
search for a place in history.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic,
The Sun Watches the Sun
tags: books, dejan-stojanovic, history, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, place, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, search, searching, the-sun-watches-the-sun, time, vain, waste, wasting-time, wisdom
“So that was how I spent nine months
of my life. I felt like I was pregnant, except instead of giving life, I was
wasting mine.”
―
Jarod Kintz,
Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.
tags: life, pregnant, squander, time, waste, wasting-time
“Vous perdez votre temps! (You're
wasting your time.)”
―
Kathleen Flinn,
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter,
and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
tags: french, wasting-time
“We all have the same 24/7. What we do
with our time, becomes our priority.Avoid priorities by default.”
―
Patt Hollinger Pickett Ph.D.
tags: not-enough-time, priority, setting-priorities, use-of-time, wasting-time
“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that
time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
―
Jennifer Egan,
A Visit from the Goon Squad
tags: aging, death, getting-old, getting-older, wasting-time
“Tempted to type meaningless twaddle
all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!”
―
E.A. Bucchianeri
tags: alliteration, funny, humor, humour, temptations, time-wasting, twaddle, twitter, twitter-addiction, twitter-quotes, wasting-time
“his is exactly what I mean about
rabbit holes. I love them. I don’t find them a waste of time at all. The
Internet works like the subconscious - I’m sure somebody’s said that already,
it’s so obvious, I just can’t think who it would have been. The point is, this
is how dreamwork works: you wake up and think, “Why the hell did I dream that my
2nd grade teacher was masturbating my dental hygienist?” If you were in
analysis, you’d probably be able to figure it out if you really wanted to, just
like you could probably eventually figure out why YouTube thinks some SpongeBob
SquarePants video is related to Natalya Makarova dancing the dying swan. I do
like to understand some of the connections, and for others to remain mysterious.
This is how I feel about my subconscious as well. And I never really find it a
waste of time. If you think about it, you always find something out. Gray seems
to be wasting a lot of time, but in his quiet way, he’s figuring out how to deal
with the fact that the people we love die. I really don’t think that’s a waste
of time. Also, for the record, I really don’t think looking at art (MJ, Pina,
Merce) over and over and over, trying to understand what it’s trying to tell
you, is a waste of time. I think it may be the most meaningful thing we do. I
tell my graduate students this all the time. Don’t let anybody make you feel bad
about this.”
―
Barbara Browning
tags: procrastination, wasting-time
KJV 1 Timothy 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
• 1 PETER 3:10-11 LOVE LIFE, SEE GOOD DAYS
10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
• JOHN 5:28-30, JOHN 12:25, ACTS 24:15 LIFE, DEATH, GRAVE (PURGATORY), ALL RESURRECT AND THEN JUDGMENT
JOHN 5:28-30,
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in
the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
JOHN 12:25,
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
ACTS 24:15
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
• JOHN 14:6 WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• JOHN 6:63 THE WORD IS SPIRIT AND LIFE
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
• 1 JOHN 5:13 KNOW ETERNAL LIFE
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
• JOHN 6:47 BELIEVE ETERNAL LIFE
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
• JOHN 20:31 BELIEVE JESUS IS THE MESSIAH FOR ONE TO HAVE LIFE
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a Jewish rabbi were discussing when life begins. "Life begins," said the priest, "at the moment of fertilization. That is when God instills the spark of life into the fetus." "We believe," said the minister, "that life begins at birth, because that is when the baby becomes an individual and is capable of making its own decisions and must learn about sin." "You're both wrong," said the rabbi. "Life begins when the children have graduated from college and moved out of the house."
(Life began with GOD at creation. Pro choice in this era means your choosing death. Instead of Just pro choice be Pro life Choice)
One Saturday evening, a certain minister decided that he did not want to preach the following morning but go play a relaxing round of golf instead. He called his assistant minister and told him that he was feeling under the weather and would not be in service. He then called to set a tee time at a course that was a fairly long distance away from his church so as to not be "caught" by anyone who would recognize him. Meanwhile in heaven, St. Peter was looking down in disgust and questioned God, "Do you see this? What are you going to do about this?" God just smiled.
The next morning upon arrival at the clubhouse, he is contented to find that he is but the only person who will be on the course. Peter is still fuming and anxiously anticipating God judgment. After walking a while to the first hole, he takes note of the layout: a 420yard par 4. He casually grabs his driver and sets. POW!!! Perfect hit...the ball sails all the way to the green and in the hole for a hole in one! Peter throws a fit of rage at God. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING? WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?" God just smiles back and says, "Who's he going to tell?"
(Life is more fun and better when you can share with others. Keep the Sabbath day Holly not a day for leisure, pleasure, work, etc )
KJV Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
The word rested in the text above has been understood that God ceased from the work of creation and began the most important work of all which was super natural and that is why people in every seven days must spare one to rest from their physical activity and engage in spiritual service, fasting and prayer.
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