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!