I have made this comment a few times in the past week and it seems to really resonate with people. (I'm not trying to sound cool I promise:) So I thought I should just put down my thoughts about it, and why it's been running around my head.
Some things are for a lifetime: like marriage, children, careers, houses(sometimes;), basically everything we build while we are alive only lasts a lifetime. ONLY. In the spectrum of eternity our lives are 'but a vapor'. We get what, 80 years if we're lucky? It seems like a long time when you're 15, but at 24, the time is ticking!
I feel like we tend to focus so hard on physical things, and I don't just mean like money and stuff, I mean feelings. And emotions. I don't mean to discount them, I am just trying to get a broader view of things. We let our emotions decide what we eat, where we go, who we spend time with, ect... Let me reiterate, this is NOT a bad thing! God gave us emotions for a reason.
- Let me tell a story, there is a girl I know who is getting to know a man who has a daughter. My friend, who has been saving herself for marriage has had to rethink any potential with him because of that. This is noble of her, but I began to think, things like that are only for a lifetime...
Somethings are forever: the work we do for the Kingdom of God has lasting effects. Forever. Whether you are leading a Sunday school class, Pastoring a church, or having a great relationship with Jesus that people can see just shine out of you. When you live your life to please God, that is what lasts forever. And if you marry a man who already has a daughter, yet together you are able to do more work for the Kingdom-which is the better?
Now I know there are lots of variables that play into all of this, but this is just a broad explanation of what I've been thinking about. What do YOU think?
Matthew 6:20 "Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal."
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