Worth Living For?

In Kaleo last night we were asked to complete the statement, “My life is worth living if I know I will have ______________.” I didn’t think much of it at first, but then God started poking at my heart and revealing some things to me. Funny how that always works, huh?

If I can be honest, my answer was “My life is worth living if I know I will have job security.” For some reason I have a tendency to idolize my job. I have no idea why, I don’t even like working most of the time (does anyone, really?), but it seems with every message on idolatry or treasures, my answer is always “my job.”

The more I listened to the message and thought about my answer, though, the more ridiculous it seemed to me. My job never took my sins from me. It never died for me (on the contrary, I seem to kill myself for it! Lol!). It never cleansed me in it’s blood so that I might have a reconciled relationship with God. It’s never done anything for me, except deprive me of sleep, and yet I still place it high in my heart.

After the message last night, though, I was reminded that my job is just here-and-now, something temporary, and if I treasure it I will be disappointed because it will fade so quickly. My heart and mind need to be set on the Everlasting God, who will never disappoint or fade away. It showed me the necessity of treasuring Christ as my all and reminded me of Philippians 3:7-8, “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.”

So what’s my answer now? My life is worth living if I know I will have Christ always