Investments

I am convinced that the most important thing I can do is love--to love God, and to love his people. What is love? Love is a conscious choice to give up one’s needs and desires in order to elevate another’s. It is servanthood; sacrifice that does not regard the merit or response of it’s object but is based solely upon the giver. Love is putting another person ahead of oneself.
As I’ve grown, I’ve realised we don’t know when life will end. We do not know the number of our breaths. So why waste them? Why waste our breaths on the things that have no future? Of what benefit is it to pursue money, fame, and pleasure if it will only last as long as our breaths? But, you see, people have souls, they are eternal beings--they will be in either Heaven or Hell for eternity. Can we not invest in the future? People are the future, be it the future on earth or the future in eternity. They, then, I believe are the most valuable investments we can make, the rewards are eternal!

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire This is the second death, the lake of fire.And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
So, then, shall we not seek to serve others every day? Shall we not make love, Christ-like love, our defining attribute? Shall we not seek to love people, not to death but to Life? Remember. . .what you do here matters!

5 April 2008