What is it, exactly, that you live for?
What is of utmost importance in defining your life? Shopping? Spending your salary, or your spouses salary, acquiring things that only satisfy momentarily?
Sports maybe? Spending the families money on seasonal sporting events or expensive sporting equipment? Boats, jet skis, four wheelers, guns, fishing gear, paddle boards, dive gear?
Or maybe it's vehicles. You blow much of your income on an overpriced car to fit in, look good, feel good.
Or maybe it's your kids. You spend every dime making sure your kids have the best. No, the very best. To ensure they are better. To make sure their education, clothes, transportation, and activities trump all.
None of these things are bad things. Life is meant to be enjoyable. However if your life is being lived to acquire things? Well, it may be time to re-evaluate.
David tells us in Psalm 24:1 "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him". All of us, at one time or another, have patted ourselves on the back "I did this" or "I created this". "I made this happen. Me."
It is because of the precious blood of Jesus Christ that we have earthly gifts. His blood provides our talents. His blood washes our filth clean so that we are able to prosper.
The moment, however, that we forget whose we are? Who has us? Who was flogged, pierced, crucified? Bones crushed as nails were driven through His flesh? As Believers when we live for us? "I am so talented look at my accomplishments!" We make a mockery of the cross. We trump the Gospel.
If we provide the greatness in our lives by our own hands then we push God out. We don't need him any longer. We are saying to the world "I am as capable as God is". More specifically "I am God. I can do all things through me".
Is what you are living for worth Christ having died for it? Did you put Him to death to fulfill your emptiness with material insignificance? Or does His death fill the hole in your soul that allows you to live for Him?
"But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand"-Matthew 7:24
"But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand"-Matthew 7:24