I enjoy car rides. I enjoy riding with no destination in mind. Even as a teenager, I loved jumping into my 1986 Cressida and driving for an hour or two just for fun. (This was before ridiculously high gas prices!) I still enjoy doing it every now and then. As much as I enjoy wandering aimlessly through back country roads, I have learned that you cannot be successful in life by wandering aimlessly. A successful Christian life must be lived with purpose. Our culture deceives us into living lives with no eternal purpose. We are told to live for right now. Proverbs 14:12 says “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Can I challenge you to take some time to analyze your life from the truth of God’s Word? What are you doing to actively draw closer to God? (James 4:8) What things are pulling you away from a relationship with God? (Hebrews 12:1) How many things in your life have no eternal value? (2 Peter 3:10-11) Ask yourself some important questions. If you keep hanging out with the friends (social media or face-to-face), that you spend time with now, where will you end up? If you follow the influences (athletes, celebrities, teachers, spiritual leaders, etc) that you are actively following, where will you end up? If you keep walking with God, the way you are walking with Him today, where will you end up? I challenge you to analyze your life and adjust the things that are out of order. May we live with purpose as the Apostle Paul: Philippians 3:13-14 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
