Vainly Living

Psalm 127:1

Unless the LORD builds the house,

   they labor in vain who builds it;

Unless the LORD guards the city,

   the watchman stays awake in vain.  (NKJ)

     Unless you know and love and live for the Lord our God, your life is lived in vain, because apart from our Creator we gain nothing worth dying for.  Without knowing the Truth of God's written Word there is no true or lasting purpose for anything.  Without a God-driven life we run around in circles, making the same foolish mistakes over and over and hoping for better results.  When you merely live for the sole purpose of existing, you end up living for the moment and hoping it is not your last.  Without the absolute Truth in your life, anything and everything is a game of chance.  Without knowing how you came into being and who you were created to be and for what purpose you are here and where it all leads, there is only confusion, disappointment, doubt and death.  People who live apart from God and do whatever they feel like doing are living on the edge of the abyss.  When your life becomes all about yourself, it leaves you empty and living in vain.  When you live by our own rules and for your own sinful passions you are of no value in the Kingdom of God's Garden and the Gardener will cut you off and throw you into a heap to be burned.

     The life that God has graciously given you is not an accident, my friend, but a careful, well thought out plan by the Creator and Master Gardener.  Without the Gardener, the garden would have never been planted.  Without God’s gardening precision, the universe that supports garden Earth would be spinning wildly out of control with no purpose—much like a garden without a gardener would turn wild with very little product.  Without God’s direction and intervention, people would feed on anything in the garden that would satisfy their appetites regardless of the consequences, much like eating from a garden without knowing what is good or what is poison.  People who deny the existence of the Master Gardener have an emptiness so deep that it will never be filled.   People who live apart from their Savior are left unprotected, unaware, and helpless prey for the jaws of Satan.  So, however you are living and whatever you are building, if God is not in the Plan it will crumble into a heap of rumble to be burned forever.

                                     A Whisper of Hope

Without Me as your Foundation…life's storms will bring you down.  Without My sustaining power your life will spin out of control.  But a life build on the Foundation of Truth will stand strong through the many storms of this fallen world.  Build wisely, child and I will bring eternal purpose to your life. 

John 15:5-6

“Yes, I am the Vine; you are the branches.  Those who

Remain in Me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. 

For apart from Me you are nothing.  Anyone who parts

from Me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. 

Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.”  (NLT)

          But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what

                 kind of work each builder has done. 

     The fire will show if a person's work has any value. 

                                   (1 Corinthians 3:13)