December 3

If there is no resurrection, then we should party and we are to be pieties more than other men. Paul makes his case about the resurrection to those who either don’t believe or have some real doubts of the possibility of being resurrected. His point is that without the resurrection of Jesus – this is a bad fairy tale that has caused him some real grief for nothing. Extrapolated to us who do believe what does this mean? This life is NOT what Christianity is primarily about! The more the devil can convince us that this life is what Christ died for (which He did die for our abundant living), the less we will be most concerned with advancing the Kingdom of God and bringing people to salvation. We will fall into the trap of helping people improve in this life as our focus, and our focus, my focus, must be on bringing people to salvation and then maturity! I will only live another 40 years or so, but I will be alive for eternity (I can’t conceive of that – so put the number at 1000 so I can wrap my mind around that for comparison’s sake). Do I want to live for the next 40 years as its own purpose, or live for the next 40 years for the next 1000 years? That is an easy answer. It is all about focus.

Oh God, don’t let me focus too much on this life. I want to be focused on the next life and this life will be lived with that focus! I want to bring people to salvation, give me opportunity Lord.