YOLO

YOLO.  "You Only Live Once".  A motto made famous by artist, Drake, in his song "The Motto".  It's taken the college culture by storm.  The acronym spoken while people get wasted partying like there are no consequences and no tomorrow.  "If we only live once, we might as well party hard and have fun."  It's an excuse to live promiscuously, and to fully enjoy sin.  It's sad to think that the sin many boast and gloat in will one day separate them eternally from the only One who could give them what they are looking for.


If we only live once, why are we drinking out of broken cisterns?

My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.  Jeremiah 2:13

A broken cistern is the runoff of water where all the water has drained out and only sludge and disgust remain.  So not only have we run away from God (our living water), but we have gone to drink out of an atrociously disgusting pit that we have created for ourselves (the sin we boast in).  


So we only live once.  We all know that.  So why not live a life that we were created to live.  We were created to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.  We were created to be fully satisfied by the Living Water. The consequences from this one life we live are way too high to just "party and live it up".  Eternity hangs in the balance of whether or not we chose to follow Christ and have a life transformed by Him.  

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. 1 Peter 4:3-4

It's amazing how timeless that is.  We've spent enough time shouting "YOLO!"  Our friends may be shocked that we don't shout it with them.  But we should live our lives as if we "Only Live Once".  We might as well live it for the glory of Christ, our only true joy and satisfaction.


But don't forget about the life after this one.  So while we only live a life on earth once, there is one that comes after that won't last 75 years.  It lasts forever, either in the joy of our Master, or in the horrible emptiness and anguish of separation from Him, burning in our broken cisterns.  #YOLO