Time to Serve

October 27 (thursday)
One of the brothers in the mission said, "There is no convenient time to serve the Lord." At any phase of our lives, we will always be busy. When we're young, we are busy with school. When we graduate, we're busy with work. When we retire, we're busy vacationing. And later at the final years of our lives we realized I should have spent time in knowing, loving, and serving God.

If you are reading this, now is the time to serve the Lord!

Our Highest Ideal

Lately, I keep on hearing the song, Billionaire by Travie McCoy. It seems that much of the people around the world, want to be a billionaire. Many make this their highest ideal. What are our ideals? Are they based on money, position, or fame?

If we believe that all things come from God, then we would have a different perspective on our ideals in life. We must remember that we are only stewards, not owners. With this in mind, our highest ideal should not be money, position, or fame. Our highest ideal should be loving God. Jesus commands us:

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' (Matthew 12:30)

Loving God with all our heart and soul means deciding to love Him with all of our will. This includes both feelings and intellect. Loving God with all our mind means filling our thoughts with His Word and using our intelligence to spread His gospel. Loving God with all our strength pertains to being stewards and using our effort, time, money, possessions, influence, to spread His kingdom on earth.

If we pursue our goals in life by loving God as our ideal, then things will be clearer for us. It may be a difficult transition, but the best part is having clarity in our direction. When going into a business, we can ask ourselves, "Will this business lead me to loving God or compromising God?" When we devote much time and money to achieve success in our work or studies, we probe our minds, "If I love God, am I using my time and money to help expand God's kingdom on earth?"

Let us make loving God our highest ideal, and we shall see our lives fall right into place.