On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

by Alan Noble

You can’t cease being useful to God because you were never useful to begin with. That’s not why He created you, and it’s not why He continues to sustain your existence in the world. His creation of you was gratuitous, prodigal. He made you just because He loves you and for His own good pleasure. Every other reason to live demands that you remain useful, and one day your use will run out. If you live for the World, the Flesh, or the Devil, there is no room for grace, or for God’s gifts. But to God, your existence in His universe is a good act of creation, and it remains good as God’s creation, even in its fallen state.