Living Your Best Life
Colossians 1:5-6 Your faith and love continue because you know what is waiting for you in heaven—the hope you have had since you first heard the true message, the Good News that was told to you. Throughout the world, this Good News is bringing blessings and is spreading. And that’s what has been happening among you since the first time you heard it and understood the truth about God’s grace.
Last year the global self-help industry – books, courses, coaching, all that stuff – generated revenues of over $US 45 billion. That’s projected to grow to around $US 70 billion by 2030. A lot of people, it seems, are looking for a lot of help in improving their lives.
So what do you want to improve in your life? Your sense of wellbeing perhaps, your financial position, or your health? Or maybe you’d like to project more confidence, improve your public speaking, learn how to dress for success.
The whole self-help thing is a multi-faceted beast. But whatever you’re after, it all boils down to this: I just want to live a better life. I want what it takes to get through the struggles, to avoid the mistakes and to live a good life.
For me, a huge part of that “better life” is hope, because I do sometimes make mistakes that have consequences. Things do come at me out of left field. How about you? Writes the Apostle Paul back in the 1st Century AD:
Colossians 1:5-6 Your faith and love continue because you know what is waiting for you in heaven—the hope you have had since you first heard the true message, the Good News that was told to you. Throughout the world, this Good News is bringing blessings and is spreading. And that’s what has been happening among you since the first time you heard it and understood the truth about God’s grace.
That hope is a certain hope; it’s one that’ll bless your socks off because it’s all about God’s grace for you. And it’s spreading like wildfire. Want to improve your life? Go with God-help, not self-help. Put all your hope in Jesus.
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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