When you go to lavish weddings,
When you go to amazingly large houses,
When you meet multi millionaires.
Have you ever wished those were what your life was like?
Have you ever wished that luck and fortune was on your side?
The pursuit of wealth is for many an elusive dream.
Many are in the rat race to be a top earner, top businessman, top entrepreneur, top this, top that.
Now there is nothing wrong with aiming high, to live your dream.
Sometimes I wonder what if I obtain wealth but then I die the very next day.
Is that of any merit to me?
Imagine the things I probably have to sacrifice to obtain such?
Is it really worth it?
There are many things we want God to give us. Such that he sometimes has become our genie in the lamp. The thing I am covering today is wealth. Sure wealth is fine, if God blesses you with it, Praise the Lord. But if not, I wonder is it really worth it?
What am I getting at you ask?
Jesus said in Matthew 16:26 "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
My point here is will I go in the pursuit of wealth at the expense of my salvation?
If you could weigh it on a pair of scales, what would weigh more than your salvation?
If you want to know the answer of Christian living, it is within the context of the text.
Many times I live as if salvation is not important to me. Don't we tend to do that more often that not? We treat this life as the most precious thing that we could ever have and forsaking the eternal and embracing the temporal.
The devil wants us to live life and enjoy it to the fullest. Letting our passions and desires go free and squeezing as much pleasure from this life as we can ignoring the things to come. It is something that is likely to be common in the last days where living for the moment has become the mantra.
The question today is "Where do you dedicate your energies to?"
"What goal are you trying your utmost to fulfill?"
I think these can answer our direction in life. Now I do not mean to be lecturing anyone of you, I am far too young to do such. But I am merely writing a reflection of what matters most.
Just to make it obvious, the passage of Matthew 16:24-29 is that which that concerns our interest in this regard. However among these verses, one verse piques me. It is Matthew 16:25 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Having heard all of this, I will like to do my best by God's grace to live life in a way that shows where I am heading. Won't you?
