Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

What does the world offer you?



As a believer in Christ, one might immediately say NOTHING.

After all we are in the world, but not OF it. Such a powerful, powerful verse! Our goal is heaven-ward. Eternity.

So the world offers you nothing?


Right?





Wrong.
Or at least, I feel that we shouldn't just close the book there. Stop reading at the fullstop.


We were all brought into this world for a reason. And the reason is simple: we were called to be firm believers in Christ, to love God. And to spread the good news.

So, again I ask: What does this world offer us?



OPPORTUNITIES.

That's the big word there. And the world - with all its cynical, skeptical, broken people - it's a place with heaps and heaps of opportunities. And opportunities makes up a huge part of, well, everything.

Opportunities to share the Gospel, opportunities to encourage, opportunities to be generous, opportunities to be a friend, opportunities to start a family, opportunities to Love, opportunities to forgive, opportunities to be gracious...

(Now the word "Opportunities" just look plain weird)


We are made of the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit.

The Body is temporal.
The Spirit is the eternal.

The Spirit is US - who we really are. WE - OUR SPIRIT - the everlasting, lives in our body - which will one day die, rot and decay and eventually go back to being dust.

But don't think that the temporal is not as important as the eternal.

Because apart from opportunities, this life in this world presents us with CHOICES.

Oh so many of them. Hor fun or hokkien mee? Clems or College food? (that's an easy one)

The choices we make in this life - the one we spend on earth - will affect the rest of our lives - Literally - in another place where the streets are made of gold.

So quit thinking this world doesn't offer us anything.
In fact, this world offers us EVERYTHING - but ONLY through the power of God. It is through Him that such blessings, opportunities and choices are presented to us.

So though this life is short - which it really is as compared to like, FOREVER - make full use of it! Make a choice and grab the opportunities. But never forget that it's With God, that all things are possible.


(Yes, you really don't have the power to save someone from their sins. But you can push them in that general direction)

God Bless xx