Sunday, 25 August 2013

Nothing.....

Ecclesiastes 5:15 GNB:
We leave this world just as we entered it — with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us.

Quite a sobering thought. If only we all would read this and understand its depth, clarity and relevance, we would re-arrange our priorities and our pursuits.
This account was written by the richest man of his generation. I'm not sure that there's any man who would be as rich as he was in our generation today. He had everything he desired, he denied his eyes and appetite nothing. He had a harem of a thousand women, he was a king. Yet, in his saner moments, he thought about his life and coined these eternal words: Vanity upon vanity, all is vanity.
The world measures success by numbers: amount of cash in bank accounts, number of cars and houses and number of people who depend and hang on your every word. The world has no other measuring guage for success because it understands no other way. The Word however measures success on a different foundation: the decision of what you do with Christ. Once you have decided right, then the numbers can make sense. The numbers, the achievements, the acquisitions cannot guarantee you a place in heaven, only that singular decision for Christ is the ONE thing that will matter eventually.
Let's get the priority right: Christ before the contents, not the other way round. We pursue content and physical, numerical things, under the false assumption that they will give us the peace and contentment that we need. But the contentment that Christ brings is more stable and eternal. The world's peace is always temporary and superficial, the peace Christ brings will always outlast this world. 
Get the priorities right today. Let yout heart seek after the things that matter. His peace is available. His time of favour is here.

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