by: Russell McLaughlin

Are You Living For Jesus?

             A family living in a home in West Palm Beach, Florida, told a film crew it was okay to use the front lawn as a set for an episode of the “B. L. Stryker” television series, with Burt Reynolds. They knew cars would be crashing violently in front of the house.

            While the front yard was being blown up, the owner of the home was tipped off and called from New York demanding to know what was happening to his house. It seems the people living there were only tenants and had no right to allow the property to be destroyed as the cameras rolled.

            Many times, we live our lives under the mistaken impression that they belong to us. Paul says, “You were bought with a price.” (I Corinthians 6:20) In II Corinthians 5:15, Paul states, “and he died for all, that those who live will no longer live for themselves, but for Christ who died for them and rose again.”  We belong to the Lord. All we have belongs to the Lord. Simply put, “It’s not my truck, it’s God’s truck.”  “It’s not my education, it’s God’s.”  “It’s not my house, it’s God’s.”  It’s not my family, it’s God’s” “It’s not my life, it’s God’s.”  Have we surrendered all to Jesus? (Luke 9:23, 14:25-33, Romans 12:1-2)

            Are you using your time like it is God’s and not yours? Are you using and giving your money like it is yours and not God’s? Are you living your life like it is God’s? We must all live as those who know God because God will call us to account for the ways we have used this life entrusted to us.