Pastor's Corner

for Sunday Aug 9th
Are you wasting your life?
Jesus said, “If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will find true life. And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? Is anything worth more than your soul?” Mark 8:35-37 What is Jesus saying? He’s asking, “What are you doing with your life?! Are you investing your life or wasting it?!” Do you really want to get to the end of your life and find out that you wasted your life?! What a terrible thought. Can there be a more significant question than this? Some people find the question too penetrating and so move on to something else. But true disciples of Jesus confront the issues that Jesus puts before them. This is a question Jesus wants me to ask and answer – “What am I doing with my life?” Are we investing or wasting our lives? If you live your life for Jesus you will invest in your life, but if you live for yourself you will waste it! But here’s what tough, if you want to invest in eternity you have to hand your life over to Jesus. Jesus must be LORD of my life not just an adviser. Advice is something we can take or leave. I don’t have to follow someone’s advice. If I don’t like it I can reject it. But Lordship is different. If Jesus is Lord then what He asks of me is not optional, I must obey whether I agree or not; whether I like it or not. Turning my life over to Jesus is hard to do, but here’s the reality – if you are not investing your life in Jesus you are simply wasting your life, and that’s tragic.
Pastor Don.