Wednesday, June 26, 2013

"When Will We Learn?"

  It takes something tragic at times to get our attention, to get us to dwell on the things above as we should. Why is this? A sudden loss of a loved one or a great loss of life from some disaster and we start focusing on the eternal and brevity of life. Why at this time? I thought we are taught by the Lord to "keep seeking the things above, where Christ is"? I thought we are to "set our minds on the things above, not on the things that are on the earth"? Why is it for you and me that the Scriptures from the mouth of God do not impact us and leap out to us daily rather than when there is a close loved who dies?
  Our lives go like this: we get up around the same time each morning. We get ready, head to work. We come home and eat. We pay bills. We sit and watch tv. We go to bed. We get up around the same time each morning. We get ready, head to work. We come home and eat. We pay bills. We sit and watch tv. We go to bed...In all this we become programed and almost robotically get caught up in daily routines and it makes me wonder if we are simply existing rather than seeking?
  It is true we need to work as the Lord commands. We need to eat, sleep and spend time with our families. These are necessities! It's not the necessities that seem to grab our time but more than necessities are consuming us.
  Sometimes we are living as if we are not going to pass from this life. This seems to reach to the soul and the things above impact us only at certain times of pain and distress rather than daily. Yet God speaks to us calling on our undivided attention to our lives on earth so we will seek and set our minds on things above. Eternity is just a breath away for each of us! Just listen:
"For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again." (II Sam. 14:14)
"For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off." (I Pet. 1:24)
"Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." (Jam. 4:14)
"By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you shall return." (Gen. 3:19)
"If He (God) should determine to do so, if He would gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust." (Job 34:14-15)
"For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust." (Psa. 103:14)

  Do we get the picture? Putting things into perspective, when will we learn that we need to constantly be seeking the things above and setting our minds on the things above? What is most important in your life? Just look at your lifestyle and you will have your answer!

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