What if?

so i listed all these a week or so ago. maybe they dont apply to everyone, maybe no one else has thought about this stuff, or maybe everyone has. so these are my ramblings and scrambled thoughts, but i promise you they are from my heart. i wish i could live up to all of these, but by God's grace am i given my next breath, and by God's grace am i given the choice to decide what to do with that next breath.


Do you ever feel or wonder if theres more to life than what were living?

What if we stopped to think?
What if theres more than the daily routine?
What if theres more than all of our materialistic things?
What if theres more than movies and fashion?
What if theres more than coffee and grades?
What if theres more than what we hear on the news?
what if we stopped believing everything we hear and started believing things for ourselves?
What if we sought the truth?
What if theres more to a friendship then hello and goodbye?
what if theres more to friendship than just hanging out and having fun
what if theres more than myspace and facebook?
what if theres more to love than the infatuation that people make it?
what if we got sick of having tight-knit groups and cliques?
what if we actually talked about the things that nobody wants to talk about?
What if that lonely, rejected person you know committed suicide?
What if we could learn knowledge in school, instead of just trying to get a good grade?
What if we actually loved others more than ourselves?
What if we ran to God for help instead of only running to our friends?
What if we realized how many idols we have in our lives?
What if we realized that repentance means to change our mind and actions, not just saying "sorry"?
What if we stopped turning our backs on the word "repent" and we actually did repent?
What if we realized how much our lives are worth?
What if we realized Gods timing isnt our own?
What if we believed Gods love is enough?
What if we actually had faith?
What if God used us to heal the sick, drive out demons, and raise the dead, like the bible says?
What if we are complacent and live our lives without ever taking a risk?

What if theres more than what the pastor says every sunday morning,
What if theres more essentials to christianity than what we hear in Essential Christianity?
What if we thought about what we are taught?
What if we realized that we don't "just barely" get to heaven?
what if we realized that God is bigger than our problems?
what if we believed that through Christ, we are more than conquerors?
What if we realized God is our father?
What if we treated God like a father?

what if we stopped judging people?
What if we stopped judging people for judging us?
What if we gave up our misconceptions and preconceived ideas?
What if we knew that worship is how we live our lives to God, not just a song we sing?
What if we actually committed our lives to God instead of only chasing the emotional high?
What if we lived the way God wants us to live instead of the way we want to live?
What if we actually knew what true love is?
What if we knew God wants to be in all of our life, every moment of it, not just some of it?
What if people actually read the bible, and not just for the sake of reading it, but to learn things for themselves and to grow?
What if theres more than going to church on sundays and wednesdays?
What if theres more to life than simply being a "good person"?
What if theres more than getting married and having a family?
What if theres more than having a good career and getting rich?
What if we believed that our lives had a bigger purpose?
What if we gave up our strengths AND weaknesses to God?
What if we gave up our dreams, visions, and goals to God?
What if we actually lived what the bible says?
What if we stopped making Jesus who we want him to be and started believing in who he really is?
What if we actually gave up our lives to God, our WHOLE life?
What if we believed that miracles can still happen... all the time?
What if theres more to life than having fun?
what if we stopped only helping ourselves and started helping others?
what if we stopped living for ourselves?
what if there's more than what we're comfortable with?
What if we died tomorrow?
What if we would forgive people for their mistakes, just as Jesus forgave ours?
What if we told people how much they meant to us?

What if everyone actually believed that they could change the world?
What if we lived our lives one step away from the truth but never took that step?
What if tomorrow we wake up and live our lives exactly the same way we have been?
What if tomorrow we wake up determined to make a difference?


as i was thinking about these i thought- what if we did change the world? even that seems empty, and i remembered this verse. without love we are nothing. but a life of love is worth dying for and worth living for, a life of meaning and purpose. God, give us love, for you for others.

What if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, if I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, if I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love? I am nothing
What if we knew that true love, God's love, never failed?