What Are You Living For?

If we can get past all the fancy language, get beyond all the arguments, and get to the heart of the matter, we are all living for one of two things:

1. We are living for what this life can offer us, which we cannot take with us, or
2. We are living for what is beyond this life, something this life can’t take away from us.

There really are no other options. You may be young and you may argue that you’re living for the day you get married. I say “Great! Then what?”. You may then reply that you’re living for the day you graduate college, get the great job, have children, watch them grow up and get married, the day you become a grandfather, and then the day you retire. Great! Then what? And in the end, like every other person, you die. Great! Then what? And only what you and I have done for eternity will last.

What am I living for today?

What are you living for today?

Someone once wrote “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

Each of us is either living for this life or for what is beyond this life, but we can’t life for both. Either we invest in this life or we invest in eternity, but not both.

In Matthew 6:20 Jesus told us to store up treasure in heaven, and then He said that our heart, our affections, are drawn to where we put our treasure. Wow! Sounds like Jesus is telling us that we have a gauge to measure where our primary focus is.

Where is your focus today? Is your focus on something you will be leaving behind, or is your focus on something you will enjoy after this life?

Think about it!