Take Hold of life

"Take hold of life" - no passive sitting back and letting life "happen" to you. Instead, take life by the scruff of the neck and live it! Take action now ... don't let another day go past that you will never remember and will be just a grey blur of mediocrity. Instead - stand tall and do something today as if this was the first day of the rest of your life (which it is) and you want to remember this day for eternity. Living life is to be purposeful and full of action - it is not to be merely endured or left to run down to the day we die.

I came across the imperative "take hold" of life when reading something the apostle Paul said to his young disciple Timothy. Here's the verse in full:

"Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses" Paul to Timothy in 1Tim6:12

I may blog another time about taking hold of eternal life another time ... I'll finish with the thought that as we take action today we do so as beings designed for eternity.