What's the Point?

I've been thinking a lot lately about life. My life and the lives of the people around me. Everyone is just running around, or sitting, or lying. Going to the bank or the grocery store, picking up their kids. Every person on earth right now, billions and billions of people, every one of them has a story. They have fears, and doubts, joys, hopes, and dreams: the full spectrum of human emotion. And yet, compared to all of time, they'll be gone in a second. In a hundred and fifty years, no one is going to remember you or me. Or what job we had, where we lived, or what we wore. So what the heck is the point?!

The point is God. The point of every moment of every day is to glorify God. Whether life is good, or a constant struggle, God IS in control and He WILL be acknowledged.

I think we get so caught up in ourselves, and our worries and our desires, that we forget that this is God's show. We forget that He is a huge, perfect, and completely holy God. So much so, that if we merely glimpsed his face, we would die. One of my professors, Dr. S. always says that holiness is like light; as light utterly destroys darkness, so holiness utterly destroys unholiness. This is absolutely true and we need to remember that God is fearsome. He is the perfect Creator, and as such, He has every reason to do whatever He likes. Who are we to question that?

Anyway, I sure haven't figured out how to glorify God with every moment of my life. In fact, sometimes, I don't even think about Him, let alone fear Him. But I'm working on it, and I think the church today needs to get serious about that command in 1 Corinthians 10:31.