June 6

Rising early. Working late. Having little time for friends and family. Being immersed in work 24/7. If we tally the cost of worldly success, the price is usually paid in this coinage. We know it’s steep. We know the acquisitions that result from the spending of it will often disappoint us. Yet we persist in doling out the ‘change’ that we hope will ‘change’ our lives for the good.

We are concerned that were we to simply stop the treadmill and step off we would be perceived as losers—not only in the eyes of everyone we know but more importantly, in our own. And that is not to say we want to abandon all sense of responsibility; rather to place duty somewhere a bit lower on our list of priorities. But, we know doing so would result in another list of problems.

How can we align our responsibilities aright? How can we invest ourselves appropriately in order to attain the necessities of life along with some of its luxuries without compromising our eternal reward? As always, the ultimate answer to this question, as to every other, lies in the Word of God. As always, His focus in upon the true treasure that transcends time and spends in eternity!

In I Corinthians 2:7 we are told, “…what we are setting forth is the wisdom of God, once hidden but now revealed by God Himself and devised for our glorification.” The only wisdom set forth in the scriptures is that which is oriented around Christ. If we possess the earth’s wisdom and its incumbent treasure we have no glory if we have spent ourselves upon its attainment yet have not the unspeakable Gift of eternal salvation.