That for which you live is that for which you will die...

I think that there is an axiom that goes something like this: "What you live for is, in actuality, what you will die for."... So I said to myself, "Self? What am I willing to die for? Am I living for that?"

Jesus said, "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36). The Scriptures are replete with encouragements, admonitions and even commands to pursue that which of eternal value over that which will ultimately perish.

I just don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived my life for nothing of enduring value. There is obviously a sense in which we live our lives in the corporeal, sensory, material world... and I would never want to denigrate that... God created this world, and he has called us to live, love and glorify him here and now. God help us to avoid the "spiritual is good, material is bad" thing. My understanding of Heaven is that it will have material dimensions. (Revelation 21:16)

I guess I am saying that I want to live for that which will endure. The Bible tells us that we were created for a person and a place. That person is Jesus and place is Heaven. (Thank you, Randy Alcorn, for the way that you life and ministry trumpets this.) I want the trajectory of my life ("trajectory", I love that; thanks, Nick Swan, for introducing that use of the word to me ) to be Heaven. I want the passion of my soul to be to love, to worship and to trust Jesus. He promises to bring everything else into focus, to lead, to guide, to provide.

I want to continue to grow in pursuing that which is eternal, that which brings glory and honor to the Name above all names, to my Lord, who loves me with an everlasting love.... So for now... "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8