Years ago, when I was a kid, there was a game show on TV that I loved to watch. It was a show called “Supermarket Sweep”. The idea was that contestants would be given shopping carts and only so many minutes to put as much stuff in their carts as they possibly could and then return to the checkout lane before the time ran out and the buzzer sounded. It was great to see these folks, both men and women, running those carts up and down the aisles grabbing things and throwing them in the carts. I don’t know if they were limited to getting only so many of a particular thing, but I remember as a kid yelling at the TV “Forget the cereal boxes…go for the beef!” Even as a kid, I knew that meat was probably the most expensive stuff you could get and the winner was the one that got the highest total at the checkout. Yeah, just the opposite of what you want when you go shopping now! But some of the folks would not go for the maximum but would pick out lesser items, maybe because that’s what they were used to doing when they went shopping for real. We sometimes are like that with the God of the Bible. We spend time and energy and attention on things that don’t have eternal value, but invest in things that aren’t necessarily bad, but just aren’t the best, because that’s what we are used to! What God wants for you and me is…the best. His love is expressed in his giving the best to us…but sometimes we are so trained by the world that we cannot see or maybe believe that what God has for us is the best. God tells us in the Bible that we can’t even imagine what God has prepared for those who love him. So, remember that you are given the gift of 1440 minutes every single day. Use them to get not just the good of life, but the best of life that only God can bring. Trust him that it is worth it and forget the Coco Puffs of life and go for God’s Filet Mignon. Follow him and keep him in your life…because with our God, the best is coming your way. Here’s our Bible verse for today…
1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
Remember I’m praying for you…
PJ
1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
Remember I’m praying for you…
PJ