When you hit age 20 you really hit something else,... first of all you hit the top of the train if you are 6'2, or you would just find so many things to be different and you start thinking about the things you dont really bother thinking when you were 15. hmm.. like thinking about what will you be doing for a living, what is money all about, and whether people genuinely care about one another or is it just a way to 'get by' and 'get what you want'?...
Physically being 20 years of age is one good thing, but it is a problem for many to have a mind as solid as their age. So what makes me a man think? Simply put into perspective, death on the cross by Christ Jesus... Once i had that knowledge when i was 14, i went all the way trying to understand life in the eyes of Jesus, what He had seen and had to say -- all clearly spelt out in the Bible as the living word of God. Because God Himself declared He knew the Beginning from the End, we should all have a view which sees the beginning from the end - looking and experiencing life by understanding a hundred years on earth is less than zero compared to eternity.
The average healthy life on earth basically thinks about three things once he/she reaches an age mature by the world's standards; get a good job, get riches, get a good man/wife. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing - what way then is really living life the way it was supposed to be? Jesus said: one's life does not consist of the things he own. when you set out to do something, and you accomplish it, it can be said as a will done. You are born with 'heaven's will' attached to you just as you were born physically with a birth certificate at hand. Life cannot be said to be as meaningful as it is until one sets out to accomplish his/her given will as a worker of God.
What God sets for a person as a lifelong task will be managed by God Himself, as a man plans his ways, the Lord directs his steps. So it still comes down to having a 'job', just that this time you are working with God and having the spiritual side of you exercised - what is seen is temporary, what is not seen is forever. Your spiritual side is the soft guy/cute little girl inside who has a heart for God somehow, and whenever the little heart inside looks to the trees, the birds and the huge blue sky and feels somehow there is Someone so loving behind all of this..
Love is the lacking ingredient most people do not bother to add into the recipes of their lifes- sadly many choose riches, looks, power, human intelligence and wisdom over it . God assures us when we do the little but important things right, he will assign us the 'greater' things which hold a greater meaning when done with a loving heart than the cold emotionless pursue for senseless riches. I can only ask God to fill me with His love so that I will be able to show it to others what He has given to me -- Remember each time you make someone feel loved, God enlarges your heart even more so that you will keep loving others and never run out of love!
...its true that one can never run out of love when he/she has God in his heart... hmm... so stop living and start loving!
Have a good night,
Shine