What is your main focus in life? What are you mainly living for? For many it is for their family. For others it is for their work, their vocation. And then there are those who are mainly living to gain material wealth, and to live high on the hog (sort of speak) And then there are those who are just living to survive. No real lofty goals, just living, and getting by.
But what do you think of someone who says, their main goal in life, is to live for Jesus Christ? That nothing is more important than their personal relationship with Christ, and their desire to serve Him. Many would say this is radical, extreme. They are really out on a limb on this one.
But after the Apostle Paul became a Christian, and started preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, this is how he felt. In Philippians 3:8, he says: "Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ..."
What Paul found was a deep inner peace with God, through Jesus Christ, and a greater fulfilled purpose for His life. Nothing of this world could equate with that.
No one can fulfill our needs, and bring to us the longings of our heart, better than Jesus Christ. What the world offers is only temporary, and never totally satisfying. But what the Lord Jesus brings, is eternally fulfilling and secure. Now this is worth living for! GP
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