| “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” |
| —Mark 8:36 |
In Helen Kromer’s and Frederick Silver’s now classic Christian musical from the early 1960s, “For Heaven’s Sake,” one of the female characters sings a lovely ballad entitled “Aim for Heaven.” The message of the song has deep roots in Scripture. The chorus ends with these words: “Aim for heaven and earth will be thrown in.”
That message contrasts starkly with our current secular culture that urges people to “get all you can and can all you can.” Said another way, our culture insists that people should “focus all your effort in life on grabbing for yourself everything you are able and then hold on to it tightly.”
But in sharp contrast, our Savior—the Lord Jesus Christ—instructed His disciples, and thus us as well, with these words recorded in Mark 8:36:
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
We believers need to become “heaven-focused.” Yes, in the midst of doing our best to obediently follow our King’s assignment while we’re here on earth, we must not lose sight of the fact that heaven is our true home. This day, let’s begin to live as citizen’s of God’s eternal Kingdom—faithful in the tasks He has given us—with our minds and hearts accepting the reality that, when our work on earth is done, the best of everything awaits us in heaven.
Based on a blog originally posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2016
