Whirlwinds vs. Life

I've missed posting the last few days because each day was its own whirlwind. Saturday held exciting and exhausting things for me all day. It started early, ended quite late. Sunday was its own ordeal. I was so busy I didn't even get to stop and eat real food until I got up again at midnight to listen to my cramping stomach.  Monday was . . . . interesting. Not busy but interesting, and I ended up with a migraine. Tuesday was once again super busy but it ended really well. Finally, we have arrived at today: Wednesday which was yet another whirlwind. Allergies are kicking my butt. I was so sick from them this morning that my body tried to vomit every time I blew my nose. But here we are at the end of the day, not much better, and I pretty much just had tea, dried mangos, and an egg today.

And I realized that all I can think of is how absolutely miserable I am. 

Life has a funny way of doing that. Every time I get determined to do something that will help me grow, like voicing my thoughts on this blog or reading that book I'm using with Bible study. Well, life has a funny way of putting me in a whirlwind. Everything just swirls around me keeping me so busy, or so miserable that I forget my determination and put off my study, and my blog until tomorrow. But the whirlwinds don't stop tomorrow because life (or in my opinion Satan and his minions) has another whirlwind waiting. 

Everyday stuff happens that prevents us from focusing on drawing near to God and focusing on voicing/learning who He is to us. Everyday stuff happens that will distract from what God is trying to do and what He is teaching. Everyday stuff distracts us from relationships, which causes those to deteriorate. 

So why do we focus on the stuff (the whirlwind) and say oh yea that's just "life". 

What we should really say is that's just circumstance. Because the stuff that happens to pull us away from things is not "life". It happens in our lives but those things themselves are not life. 

If you look life up in the dictionary you will find that it says:

"the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being
 manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to 
environment through changes originating internally."

So what this means is

 1. life is not dead and it is not an inorganic object. 

2. life is shown by growth in the human body, by babies, and by how living things adapt themselves to their surroundings. 

If you look up life in the Bible you will find many things. Here are a few: 

Luke 12:23

"Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes."

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

1 John 5:12

He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

I think you get the point. Basically, life, to be alive is to have the wellspring of Christ inside of you. Life is not food, circumstances, clothing. Life is more important than those things. Life is not the whirlwind that distracts us from what really matters which *is* life. Life is your friends, life is your children, life is your parents, life. is. Jesus Christ. 

If we lose sight of those things via Satans whirlwinds and roadblocks then are we really living? No. I don't think we are. 

So tonight I am going to bed, still sick from allergies and still quite miserable. But I am still full of life because life happened today: my siblings, my visiting uncle, my parents, my cats, and dog lived today and I experienced life, their lives. But most importantly I am alive because inside of me in my soul is a force that conquered death: Jesus Christ, and inside of me I know that my Redeemer lives!