What Are You Pursuing?

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Colossions 3:2

We spend so much time on Earth pursuing things that have no lasting significance.

How much time to we spend watching TV, or Facebooking, or chasing after pleasure and more money and more "stuff"?

I love fitness, and I love lifting weights and being strong. I love being lean and muscular. Those things are all good things, but pursuing those things takes up so much of my time, when really, they have no eternal significance. When I get to Heaven, it's not going to matter how lean and muscular I was on Earth, or how much I could squat or deadlift.

What we should be pursuing above anything is Christ. Drawing closer to Him, spending more time with Him, reading and applying His word to our life, serving Him, following Him. Those are the things that matter.

I know there some things I need to change in my life in order to draw closer to Him:
*Devotional first thing in the morning, before Facebook or blogging.
*Go to be earlier to read some scriptures before bed every night.
*Devote a few minutes of my day to read His word and spend time in prayer, without distractions.
*Less time on Facebook/blogger during the day.

What are some things you could do to pursue a relationship with God above all else?

Why Waste Your Time?

Don't weary yourself trying to get rich. Why waste your time? For riches can disappear as though they had the wings of a bird!

-Proverbs 23:4-5

 

Our goal in life should not just be chasing after money or material things. At any moment, as I have experienced myself, those things can be taken from us. And then what will we be left with? Nothing. Nothing but our faith. We cannot take our "riches" with us to Heaven, so striving after them for our own pleasure and satisfaction is a waste of time. Instead, we are to seek after those things that have eternal significance: obeying, loving and serving God!