Insignificant Goals...

 "Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." – Song of Solomon 2:15.

How we live today will determine what our outcome will be. Let’s have a good sense to know that our lives here are a journey and preparation for eternity.

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Some years ago, a headline told of three hundred whales that suddenly died. The whales were pursuing sardines and found themselves marooned in a bay.

Rev. Fr. Frederick Broan Harris commented, "The small fish lured the sea giants to their death. They came to their violent demise by chasing small ends, by prostituting vast powers for insignificant goals."

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How often in life "little things" can seem so insignificant.

For instance, the kid who smokes his first cigarette probably reasons with himself, "One smoke will not hurt," never dreaming he would get addicted to nicotine.

The same is true of the alcoholic and the drug addict. One drink will never hurt, or one drug will never hurt, never dreaming that they would end up as hopeless addicts.

Then there are those of us who pride ourselves that we are not addicted to any substance but allow our lives to be consumed by so many little things that are harmless in and of themselves but take us away from God's purpose for our life.

This Lent let’s give up insignificant goals in preparation for eternity.

May we so live that in the end when we meet God face to face we will have no regrets but hear His welcoming words, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord."

Stay Blessed!