As students, our school life can be a bit hectic, with all the homework and assignments and whatnot going here and there. We tend to engross ourselves in these activities that we sometimes forget our true purpose here on Earth. As life progresses through the technological era, luxuries such as the usage of internet and also luxurious mobile and electrical devices are served to us on a silver platter. All we have to do is open our mouths to receive it. People tend to preoccupy themselves with such materialistic treasures of this world that they forget what awaits them up in heaven.
| "Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible." (1Co 9:24-25) |
Have you guys ever wondered why are shopping malls and shopping complexes continue to rise from the ground, but churches no where to be found? It's because of these luxuries that people are starting to put God aside and embracing the worldly offers. Life on this earth is a vapor compared to the eternal life granted to those who obey in Heaven. Here is a text which I found which made a lot of sense about Christians nowadays, they claim to be godly, but they do not walk in the ways that the Lord has willed:
| "Were I a religionist did I truly, firmly, consistently believe as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another life, religion should be to me everything. I would cast aside earthly thoughts and feelings as less than vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought and my last image when sleep sunk me into unconsciousness. I would labor for her cause alone. I wouldn't labor for the meat that perishes nor for treasures on earth but only for a crown of glory in the heavenly regions where treasures and happiness are alike beyond the reach of time and chance. I would take thought to the morrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained to heaven worth a lifetime of suffering. There should be neither worldly prudence nor calculating circumspection in my engrossing zeal. Earthly consequences should never stay my hand or seal my lips. I would speak to the imagination, awaken the feelings, stir up the passions, arouse the fancy. Earth: its joys and its griefs should never occupy a moment of my thoughts for these are but the affairs of a portion of eternity so small that no language can express it's comparatively infinite littleness. I should strive to look but on eternity and on the immortal souls around me soon to be everlastingly miserable or everlastingly happy. I would deem all who thought only of this world, merely seeking to increase temporal happiness, and laboring to obtain temporal goods; I would deem all such as purely madmen. I would go forth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season. And my text should be "what should it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul." – Unknown |
| • Remember that the highest goal in life is not to have fun but to give glory to your Maker and Redeemer. • Watch your time carefully. Your life here is a vapor. Make the most of it. • Serve the Lord – in this way you’ll lay up treasure in Heaven, rather than on earth (Mat 6:20). • Spend time in devotion to God and in fellowship with godly people who also take the Lord seriously. • Think about death often and gain a perspective of eternity. If you were on your deathbed right now, what would you wish you had done with this life? Thousands and millions of years from now, what will you wish you had done with this life? • Remember that Satan is striving to get you not to think about eternity and the judgment. • Observe how seriously our Lord Jesus and the apostles spoke about life in the bible. • Fear God. Take His word seriously. Obey it. |
In His Service,
CFSMKSU
