"don't know what you've got till its gone"
I've been reminded of how important my teeth are the last few weeks. I feel I have a pretty high pain tolerance for bumps and bruises, but when my teeth hurt, its over. When I can't eat or drink without feeling pain that's bad. 2 weeks ago one of my teeth started to hurt. It was a similar pain that I had had 6 months prior for which I had a root canal. Turns out that the tooth right beside that root canal needed a root canal too! Doh... bummer. So I got it fixed. 3 days later I played basketball and I was defending someone. As he went up for a shot, his elbow caught my chin and slammed my teeth together. My teeth felt funny. When I went home that night I tried biting into a pear and I could not. I was freaking out! I couldn't imagine having no teeth and I wouldn't be able to eat hard foods! I went to the dentist the next day and thankfully, I didn't need any reconstructive surgery - they were relatively well aligned still and there weren't any fractures - I just had to eat soft foods for a week. I'm still on soft foods for a couple more days.. I really miss real food! My teeth feel better, but I have a new appreciation for my teeth. I take them for granted so much until they hurt. I'm going to try wearing a mouth guard next time I play ball (which might be tomorrow.. hehe). We'll see how it goes...
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
- Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi"
There are times when I take what Jesus did for me for granted too. Jesus came down FOR ME. Jesus suffered FOR ME. Jesus died FOR ME. And so often I do not live as if he did. I sin. Over and over again. My time is not used wisely often enough. I choose to build myself up instead of others. I take life for granted sometimes. When really, I should be grateful to be saved. I don't think I will fully appreciate or understand the extent of what Jesus really did for me until I get to heaven.. and as a result I don't think I appreciate life enough. Reminds me of one of the lines in "Here I am to worship" that goes: "I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sin up on that cross". I saw a movie over the weekend with a friend called the saw. I'm not usually into gory movies, but it was a pretty good movie with an interesting concept. The killer put people in situations that are "death traps" and they had to get out of them. And each situation the killer put the victim in was tailored to the person - their life, their struggles, etc. There was one person who escaped and she described her story to the cops. She said that the killer put a device on her jaw that was hooked onto a timer. Once the timer expired, the device would pull open her jaw and effectively kill her. The key to the device was in the stomach of her cellmate (who was "dead" according to the killer). The victim had to open up the cellmate to get the key. What she didn't know was that her cellmate wasn't dead, but was knocked up on narcotics - so he couldn't feel a thing when she was cutting into him for the key. She eventually got the key and was let go by the killer (because she accomplished her task). The thing was, she told the cops that she was once a narcotic addict, and now, after this ordeal - she appreciated life so much more. The killer helped her. Similarly, we are in a death trap. The death trap of sin. Jesus is our key. We are all on a timer. We all will die. Hopefully we find Jesus before the timer runs out. And hopefully after finding Jesus, we will be changed and appreciate life that much more.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
~Romans 5:6-8
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
- Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi"
There are times when I take what Jesus did for me for granted too. Jesus came down FOR ME. Jesus suffered FOR ME. Jesus died FOR ME. And so often I do not live as if he did. I sin. Over and over again. My time is not used wisely often enough. I choose to build myself up instead of others. I take life for granted sometimes. When really, I should be grateful to be saved. I don't think I will fully appreciate or understand the extent of what Jesus really did for me until I get to heaven.. and as a result I don't think I appreciate life enough. Reminds me of one of the lines in "Here I am to worship" that goes: "I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sin up on that cross". I saw a movie over the weekend with a friend called the saw. I'm not usually into gory movies, but it was a pretty good movie with an interesting concept. The killer put people in situations that are "death traps" and they had to get out of them. And each situation the killer put the victim in was tailored to the person - their life, their struggles, etc. There was one person who escaped and she described her story to the cops. She said that the killer put a device on her jaw that was hooked onto a timer. Once the timer expired, the device would pull open her jaw and effectively kill her. The key to the device was in the stomach of her cellmate (who was "dead" according to the killer). The victim had to open up the cellmate to get the key. What she didn't know was that her cellmate wasn't dead, but was knocked up on narcotics - so he couldn't feel a thing when she was cutting into him for the key. She eventually got the key and was let go by the killer (because she accomplished her task). The thing was, she told the cops that she was once a narcotic addict, and now, after this ordeal - she appreciated life so much more. The killer helped her. Similarly, we are in a death trap. The death trap of sin. Jesus is our key. We are all on a timer. We all will die. Hopefully we find Jesus before the timer runs out. And hopefully after finding Jesus, we will be changed and appreciate life that much more.
~Romans 5:6-8
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