fireflies.

I've been thinking about fireflies . I saw them in a field earlier this summer and felt like I was in one of those princess fairy tale story books .. you know the ones where there's a field just filled with fireflies . and they always end up catching them in their jars and gazing at how beautiful they are . but what the storybook never mentioned was what a firefly really looks like up close . its this beautiful magical thing at a distance . but when you look at it closely you see thats just a regular ugly bug . it looks like a beetle with fire on its butt . I saw them that night and just wondered ... what do they look like up close? the story books never covered that part . and then I realized there just normal beetle bugs . I was thinking about the night I saw them today and realized something . fireflies are like so many things in life . there so beautiful far away .. and they look like the most magical amazing things ever . but when you get them upclose , your come to the realization that there just like everything else . in this life, the world makes some things look so amazing and beautiful . and you don't understand you've been fooled until you see it for it's true colors . But Jesus gives us something better than beauty far away . He gives us life to the fullest , and doesn't scam us for something terrible once your stuck with it . Thank the LORD that Christ died so we could live the life that He created us to . 1 Timothy 6:12 tells us to ' Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called . ' The true One doesn't go back on His promises of what our live is . He gives us life , and life eternally .