Wednesday, July 22

I want to focus just on one element this morning...understanding. The psalms make it clear that it is more valuable than all the wealth and power in the world. It seems that this understanding is knowing and following the covenant between God and man. Only a fool says there is no god. Everything else will eventually fade away for it is transient. The only thing lasting you can devote your life to in this world is the covenant relationship between God and you. This is the only thing that is eternal. We waste so much time on career, housing, bank accounts, appearance, etc. But, in the end, we will be found naked before the Lord because all of these things go away. We should focus on being clothed with understanding and works that survive the fire of the Lord's judgment, which exposes the true worth of things and where only the eternal survives. I guess the countefeit god that exists in our society today can be summed up as the fake trinity of money, sex, and power. We should seek to understand the relationship with our God, the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

Lord, help me to seek understanding. Help me to store up eternal value.