Saturday Writing...11/3/18..."MEASURING LIFE"

Good Morning,

The Saturday offering is considering the proper yardstick for measuring your life. Some people measure by possessions, some measure by their popularity, and some measure by the positions they hold in life. These are good things but not a true measure that they are who they need to be in life. Carol wrote, "So how do you measure your life?  We need to be on guard that we don't measure our lives by worldly standards.  God wants us to expend time and energy on growing spiritually and possessing the treasure of the Kingdom of God."  

What you really need to do is open you Bible and seek to possess what will enrich your life now and through all eternity.

Carol

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Today's Devotional 

"MEASURING LIFE" 

Written by
Carol Steficek

"Then He said to them, 

Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; 

a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." 

Luke 12:15

What is your standard for measuring your life 

-- how well you are doing, what you have accomplished? 

Many people measure their lives by their possessions.  they are constantly looking at what their neighbors have or what the latest advertisements on television offer.  They aren't satisfied unless they have more and better than everyone else. 

God does want us to have all we need in this life -- He wants us to be comfortable and well cared for.  However, we don't need to have such a superabundance of things that taking care of everything consumes all of our time and energy.  All of us are guilty of this to some extent.  When I clean house I often wonder why I have so many knick-knacks to dust.  Sometimes I have actually given some to the thrift shop so they can make money for charities.  There are only so many things we need and can use.  Most of us have more than enough.  So how do you measure your life?  We need to be on guard that we don't measure our lives by worldly standards.  God wants us to expend time and energy on growing spiritually and possessing the treasure of the Kingdom of god.  Open you Bible and seek to possess what will enrich your life now and through all eternity.

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In this song the words that God tells us are featured.

Listen to the words and decide if you are able

to accept them about yourself.

Lauren Daigle 

sings the song she wrote...

"You Say"

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