Sometimes I wonder just how long people would have to live before they realized how meaningless life and material things are without God. Some people don't even come to the realization that the next life, if there is any, might be important, even as they lay on their death bed!
"Our lives have been brief, and we've only seen so much. It's hard to imagine the whole puzzle when you've only seen three pieces." ~Trip Lee
Many people think that fame or fortune will satisfy, and they never go back on that assumption because there always seems to be something more to strive for in this world. Sometimes we will have no way of truly knowing the whole picture, so we have to trust. One good example we have to lean on is a person who did experience it all, even during his fairly short amount of time on earth, and who eventually gave up living for himself: Solomon.
On the other end of the spectrum, there is a bunch of people who don't even need 20 years to come to the same conclusion; have you checked the suicide rate lately? What they don't realize is that living selfishly doesn't have to feel good. Escaping from life and from God is also selfish and pointless. So as a take-away for this post, let's look at our own selfishness and pray about how we can change ourselves to be wholly submitted to God and not be working for him out of any other motivation. Let's also be careful to remember how anything we spend time, money, or social status on is ultimately pointless and gains us nothing in God's kingdom unless it is done in love.
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