DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE!

"But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends of faith--that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the ressurection from the dead." (Philippians 3:7-11)

All of us, myself included, are worshippers of something. We worship fame. We worship youth. We worship money. We worship video games. We worship popularity. We worship talent. We worship technology. You get the picture. The problem with all this worship is that we are worshipping the wrong things. And, ultimately, we are made more and more into the image of the things we worship. The Bible has a word for this: IDOLATRY--and becoming an idolator is a sure fire way to waste your life.

The path we were made for is worship of the living, true God of the Bible. He manifested himself in the flesh as Jesus Christ. So when Paul says in Philippians 3:7-11 that everything he has he considers "rubbish," he is giving us an example. He had every reason to be proud of himself (v. 1--6), but he acknowledges that everything he has is from Christ. And on the day of judgment, when we stand before our God, we can plead nothing but the blood of Jesus who has paid our penalty. My hope and prayer is that we will worship the one true God and not the things of this world. Please don't waste your life on anything but Jesus.