ODB: Sandcastles
December 3, 2011
God wants you to spend your time and treasure building His kingdom, not your own.
READ: Luke 12:22-34
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. —Luke 12:34
When our kids were young, my wife Martie and I enjoyed family vacations in Florida visiting our parents. It was especially wonderful to be there in the warmth for a brief respite from the Michigan wind-chill factor. I couldn’t wait to just relax on the beach with a good book. But my kids had other ideas. They wanted my help building sandcastles. Reluctantly, I’d get up to help, only to be quickly consumed by the project at hand. Before I knew it, I had spent hours creating an impressive castle—not thinking that it was only a matter of time until the tide would wash away all my hard work.
We often make the same mistake in life, spending lots of time and energy building our own little “castles” of stuff and basking in our accomplishments. It all may seem worthwhile, but in the end it’s worthless.
In Luke 12, Jesus challenged His followers to sell their possessions and give to the poor, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (v.34). In other words, the way we spend our time and resources says a lot about our eternal perspective. As the old hymn goes, “Only one life, ’twill soon be past; only what’s done for Christ will last.” So what have you done today that will last for eternity?
— Joe Stowell
Source: Our Daily Bread
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The routine that we perform daily are our repsonsibilities and we maybe bored with them. But hay, it is a way to measure our faithfulness (diligent in keeping up to it). I think the process in building or for that matter the preparation stage is equally important (The temple that Solomon built; David had prepared most of all the materials needed).
Another case in mind, we may need to make lot of preparation this Christmas and thoughts that go into put into planning before delivering the Gospel message.
Therefore, be it big affair or small routine. We only pray that our good Lord will accept the way we live our live on earth. Definitely, my life will not be wasted since my aim is to honor and please Him in all I do (big and small).