Devotional for Saturday and Sunday June 14-15

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Good Morning Everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Taking care of your soul”

Our Bible verse for today: “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared – whose will they be?’ That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:20-21 (HCSB)

Our thought for today: “Ultimately all earthly achievements, accomplishments, and possessions are like dust in the wind.”

In the late 1970’s there was a Rock band by the name of “Kansas” which had a hit record with a song entitled “Dust in the Wind”. It was a song about the temporary nature of the material things we tend to pay so much attention to and attach so much importance to. It went like this:

Same old song

Just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind

Now don’t hang on

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won’t another minute buy

Jesus taught this same lesson 2000 years earlier. In Luke chapter twelve He told the story of a rich man whose crops were abundant to the point that he had to build new barns just to hold it all. The man’s focus was completely on himself and his riches, not on God or other people. And Jesus said the guy was a fool. Jesus said that that very night the man’s life would end, and all the crops and the overflowing barns and everything else he had accumulated and stored up for himself, would be worthless. 

 
We know this is true. We know full well that the things of this world are temporary. We know that the day will come when our loved ones will die, our career will end, our health will fail, and we will be faced with the final moments of life. In those moments it won’t matter how good looking and sexy you were when you were young; it won’t matter how successful you were in your career or how big your house is; it won’t matter how many luxury vehicles your own or how much money you have in the bank. In the final analysis all of that stuff is dust in the wind and when this life is over, all you will have left is your soul.

We know this. And yet we continue to pour the majority of our time and effort into accomplishing things and accumulating stuff, while we ignore the condition of our soul. Our soul is the one thing we will take with us into eternity and most of us aren’t paying very much attention to the condition of it. That was Jesus’ point.

One of the best things you can do for your soul is to be actively involved in the life of a good church. Full participation in church life will involve you in small group Bible study and group worship. It will put you in a position whereby you can be ministered to by other people, and you in turn can minister to them. And if the church is really healthy, it will provide you with lots of opportunities to be involved in ministry activities in the community. All of that will help to keep your soul fresh, alive, and healthy rather than as dry as dust and as scattered as the wind. I encourage you to attend a good church this Sunday.


God Bless,

Pastor Jim

 

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