Matters of Life and Death

Why are we content to pour our very lives into those things which will perish along with this world? If all that is eternal is the biblical God, His Word, and the souls of men, I dare not live and die for anything else. While that may be easy to say, I am forced to remember that this short life is made up of individual moments, which are squandered far more easily than not. Even today, what moments of your day had any eternal value? Have you spent any time seeking to know, love, worship, and serve God? Have you spent any time reading, studying, meditating upon, memorizing, and obeying God's Holy Word? Have you personally sought to be used by God to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost, or to encourage, rebuke, exhort, or comfort the saved? Even if you made someone's day, made someone feel happy, or showed someone you cared, have you in any way pointed them to the resurrected Christ as the only Way of salvation from sin and the holy wrath of the Most High God? The Gospel of Jesus is indeed Good News, but "how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?" Have you wasted all your spare moments on yourself, or have you set yourself aside at all for the glory of God and the benefit of others?