Thursday, January 14

Consider this question…
What is the only thing in your life that will last forever?

It won’t be your wealth, your degrees, your house, your car(s), your career, your achievements, your reputation…so what will last?

Do you know the answer? It is People! People are eternal!

C.S. Lewis writes in his essay The Weight of Glory; It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which if you saw it now, you might be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare..There are no ordinary people, you have never talked to a mere mortal…it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

Think about all of the stories of God’s activity throughout the Bible. What has He been doing? He hasn’t been developing governments, palaces, armies, industries, or other institutions. He has been building and developing people, specifically His people!
Beginning in the garden and continuing to the calling of Abraham, to Moses and the Israelites right up to the coming of Jesus Christ and even still today…God is about people!

When Jesus was asked what the most important command was in all of the Bible, what did He say? Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself.”

Basically Jesus said that what really counts in life is to Love God and to Love people.


Spend some time in reflection and prayer asking God to show you how you are doing with what really counts…

Ask God to show you how He wants you to grow in your love for Him and in your love for people…