WHERE'S YOUR MANSION?

"Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain."
-Psalm 127:1

Just down the street from my house, a beautiful fire station is being built and it's been fun to watch the progress of the construction over the last few months. You likely don't have to drive far either to see a new house going up or maybe a new business or shopping center. It seems like new things are always being done doesn't it? Between new roads, new buildings, or even redoing old ones, there doesn't seem to be a shortage of new stuff going on, and that's not the half of it!

We haven't even cracked the surface of new technology, new discoveries, new fitness techniques, new TV shows......the list goes on and on. It seems there is always something new to be checked out and another thing to be done if one wants to build towards a better tomorrow. Bookstores and the internet are stuffed with the latest and greatest ways to build a successful and better life so much do that it can be dizzying.

Check out the world's biggest house that was just finished in 2009 by Mukesh Ambani. It is 27 stories tall, has a 160 car garage and requires over 600 people just to run the place! I guess that just goes to show that there truly is no end to our world's obsession with building the latest and greatest new things.

Keeping up with this frantic pace of living is no easy task and it often seems there is so much to do that we no idea where to start.

What if we took a different approach? Buildings burn and even the greatest ideas will one day be surpasses by greater ones. A person once told me that the word of God and the souls of men are the only things that last forever. What if we chose to spend out lives laboring not for earth's lofty treasures but for heavenly treasure that lasts an eternity? What if instead of trying to build our own legacy we spent our efforts on building the eternal legacy of God's kingdom by sharing Christ's message with others? Now that's a house that will stand forever!