What’s the latest “total gym” item you bought? Was it the total gym, or something by a guy named Jake? Often those exercise machines are used once if we are lucky and placed in storage. Ever wonder why their big selling points are “Easy to store! It just folds under your bed.” That’s because that is where most of it’s time will be spent.
Why do we do that in our physical life and in our emotional search for belonging we keep running on these machines? Each week our papers are packed with them, commercials on TV beckon to them and our society worships them. King Solomon learned this long before treadmill machines existed.
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
Wisdom is meaningless, pleasures are meaningless, recklessness is meaningless, labor is meaningless, advancement is meaningless, riches are meaningless, each one of them come to an end leaving a hole. The only thing that brings life to a person is Christ. Remember that when style, success, and status pull on you to sacrifice your self-worth to them. Only in Christ do all these things become meaningful.
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3)
Why do we do that in our physical life and in our emotional search for belonging we keep running on these machines? Each week our papers are packed with them, commercials on TV beckon to them and our society worships them. King Solomon learned this long before treadmill machines existed.
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
Wisdom is meaningless, pleasures are meaningless, recklessness is meaningless, labor is meaningless, advancement is meaningless, riches are meaningless, each one of them come to an end leaving a hole. The only thing that brings life to a person is Christ. Remember that when style, success, and status pull on you to sacrifice your self-worth to them. Only in Christ do all these things become meaningful.
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3)
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