Today, July 7, 2016

I had a thought today (I have them every day, thankfully). There are so many times that our American life seems to be enough for people. We have everything we want (within reason) and we are far more abundantly blessed than what most of our ancestors ever dreamed was possible. Very few of us go hungry, we all have somewhere to sleep at night…within reason, we have enough money to satisfy our immediate desires. There’s very little American people need.

But this is not enough. To have the needs of your body met is good and well, but the needs of your soul far outweigh the needs of the body. The needs of the soul are eternal and cannot be ignored. There are many times when we can sit on our laurels and feel as though we have really made it. I see people every single day who think they have made it. I work with them and so do you. We also go to school with them, live next door to them, chat to them about the weather at the grocery store line, and sit near them at restaurants. They are the people we all see every day who, sadly, believe in the delusion that life is satisfied when the roof over your head is x amount of square feet and your car has x amount of features on it and there’s money in the bank.

This is such an easy delusion to buy into. Life is nothing but a series of checkboxes and once you have completed them all you die and…then what? What happens next?

We are so wrong in our thinking, in our preconceived notions that life is really about what’s on this earth. It’s not. This terra firma won’t last forever and when it does, where will you go? How are you living your life to make sure you go to the right place?

Unlike life where the series of choices you can make are endless, eternity only offers two: heaven or hell. This life offers you the option to live for either. That’s simply all it is. Yes, we live and laugh and breathe and enjoy things, but the main focus of it all needs to be on our Savior, on the One who made our blessings possible. Let us guard so carefully what he has given us and not be careless when it comes to caring for our eternity.