Does It Really Matter?

Finally.  Finally finally FINALLY, the DevoZines for November/December arrived!  Woohoo!  I’m starting on the entry for today, December 13th.

Dec 13 – What Really Matters?

It’s a sobering thought to me that so much of what I spend my time thinking about and worrying about and wanting will not matter at the end of my life.

The verse for today is a great one.  Mark 8:36 from the Message says this: “What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?  What could you ever trade your soul for?”  Solomon experienced this very thing because he did get everything he wanted.  Check out Ecclesiastes 2:4-11.  It’s pretty crazy.  He has everything he could want at his fingertips and then says that it’s all meaningless.

This Christmas season, I’ve been trying to think outside myself a little bit more.  I’ve been working on letting go of some of the things I wanted and instead help provide for some people’s needs.  Because those people WILL matter in 10 years and they will matter at the end of my life, even if I don’t see them ever again or ever at all.

Regardless of your age, what matters to you now?  What mattered to you 5 years ago?  What will matter in 10 years?  And if it won’t matter to you at the end of your life, is it really worth spending time and energy on?  That’s a hard one.

Lord, help me to spend my life thinking about things that concern You.  Help me to pursue You first and always, the one thing I know matters at my life’s end.