Destination...

Imagine that you are given a place to live for a short time...

The person who gave it to you informs you that your stay will be very short, and that you need to be prepared to leave and go onto your new/permanent residence at a moment's notice.

However, you have quite the decorating sense and you decide that the room "needs something." You go and find this amazing painting at an art sale, and you go ahead and spend the $10,000 because "it fits so nicely." You decorate the room lavishly, ignoring the advice of the person who gave you the room. With a new coat of paint, some wallpaper, new furniture, and a great deal of money invested, it really is quite the fashionable room now. You are comfortable.

And two days later, you are informed that your house is ready, and it's time to move.

What about the time and money you invested? The hours you spent painting? What was the point?

Yet, don't we all do the same thing? We are told repeatedly in the Gospel that this world is not our home...that He is going to prepare us a place...but we spend so much time and effort obtaining more "stuff" and making our lives here more comfortable...

And what's the point?

This was part of the message that our university president gave today in chapel...and it was amazing because it put into words what I've been learning slowly all summer...

I think about how much money and time I spend on things that have no eternal value...I mean, really, as much as I want these "things" that would make life easier or more fun, isn't there a better use of my money and time? Most likely, yes. And it has been convicting. Many changes are being made in my life in regards to money, and I am working on becoming a better steward of that which I have been given.

This earth is not our home...it's merely where we live while we prepare for the life that God is preparing for us in Heaven...it's a "pit stop" on route to our final destination...

Just something to ponder...