Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Will What You Do Last?


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We live in a world that is always looking for the next best thing.

We live in a world where there always is the next best thing.

Haven't most of us spent time on the internet and then, thinking it was ten or fifteen minutes later, found out we had blown over an hour of time just surfing with no real purpose?  Social media makes its living based of that kind of behavior.

We can be easily caught up in things that don't really matter and that won't really last.  And while there are portions of our days that are filled with what we might call mundane tasks (filling the gas tank, paying the bills, doing laundry), the question I want to pose tonight is about how much of what we do actually has the potential to have an eternal impact?

Investing in the lives of people has an eternal impact.
Loving and knowing God has an eternal impact.
Sharing the Gospel with people has an eternal impact.
The study and application of God's Word has an eternal impact.
Loving the unlovely has an eternal impact.

Pause and reflect here.
One day we will all step from this life into the next and what will we bring with us?
Spoiler alert: Facebook, Twitter, and photos of what we had for dinner won't be there.
May we make investments today in things that will last forever.

- tC