What gives your life value?

What do you live for?

Is it your status?

Power?

Money?

Hobbies?

Family?

What is it that you live for? We’ve all got something that matters to us.  Something that rolls up our socks in the morning.  Something that is dear to our lives.

Today, is that thing for you, is it the right thing?

Listen to what Jesus says in John 12:

24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.

I love life.  I love my stuff.  I love my family, I love my calling, I love my Ole Miss Rebel football team.  I do wish we’d learn to play in the second half, but that’s neither here nor there.

In the end, there is something, or someone, that has to, that must trump all of this.

Jesus.

He must come first. Everything else will fail. Everything else will fade. Everything else will disappoint.

Jesus will not.  He will never fail or disappoint us.  He will always be life for us.

People, places, and stuff, they are not perfect and we can’t base our lives on them.

Jesus is the rock.  He must be in the center.

And, if He is in the center, then everything else works. Everything is as it ought to be, if He is in the center of our lives.

What is that thing today that we are living for?   May, in each our lives, it be Jesus.