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Saturday... Was it really worth it?


Saturday... As some look back on this what they would call a very meaningful week they are wondering after giving great amounts of time, effort and money, they may be wondering, was it really worth it? 

Solomon who was the son of King David in the Bible and who also became the King in Jerusalem after looking back on his wealth, his wisdom, his hard work, his accomplishments came to a conclusion and he wrote a book in the OT called Ecclesiastes. He started it by saying in 1:2 (NLT) "Everything is meaningless... completely meaningless." What? After living your life, becoming the wealthiest person at the time, the wisest man who ever lived, having everything you thought you wanted you came to the conclusion that all of it was meaningless?

Now here is the key, if we are doing all that we do for the wrong reasons, with the wrong purpose and for the wrong person, then it is meaningless.

Someone said that the great frustration in life is to find after climbing the ladder of success and getting to the top that it was against the wrong wall. That is meaningless.

Now the Palmist in Psalm 67 knows what real worth and meaning is. Verses 1 and 2 (NIV), "May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us-so that your ways may be know on earth, your salvations among nations." 

Verses 3 - 5, "May the people praise you, God; may all the people praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth. May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you." 

This is where our worth comes from, our meaning comes from. Verse 6, "The land yields its harvest; God, our God blesses us. May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him." That is why we are here, that is the right wall, that is Who we are doing all this for and that is really worth it! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 


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