ABOVE

Every day we are faced with choices. We choose how to react to circumstances and we choose how to live our lives on a regular basis. What is most important to us guides the way we act or react.

Just the other day, somebody told me that they thought someone had taken money out of the donation can at the Student Center. I had a choice right then, to say that money was important or to say that what really mattered was that the individual who may have done this particular deed mattered even more in the overall scheme of things. I chose to believe in the value of the person rather than the value of the money.

Here’s something the Apostle Paul said that affects my thinking on the subject:

Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. Colossians 3:2 (NASB)

You see, what matters most is that person’s relationship with God, not a few dollars. We need to pray for and touch people’s souls. We need to let them know that they are more important to us than money or material things are. That’s real love.

SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD