Isaac Mwaniki

The three major things that people work for are money (read materials), power(read fame) and sex (read pleasure). These things tend to crowd the thinking of men that many more crucial aspects of life are not realised. Many people will do even more that can be done to acquire these things. Unfortunately, the more you have of these, the more you realise that you need more to experience any hapiness.

Someone asked, Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for? A nice question especially for Christians to engage. Charles Colson said " modern men and women have elevated their individual above all else, they hold no principles except their passions to plot their paths nothing above themselves to respect or obey, nothing to live or die for "

The truth in life is that you cannot get anything in life without losing something else in return. People struggle a lot wondering what life has for them without appreciating that what is more important is what they can give to the life. Life sometimes does not make sense. The good thing is that God never promised it would. However he promised to be with us even in those moments life never made sense.

Mother Teresa said, "what you spend years building, people might destroy it in just a moment". What should one do in such a case? Build anyway. Not all that we build will finally yield results. some of them actually will not. The thing to remember is that the Lord will never hold us accountable for the many things that others destroyed. We are however entitrely answerable for all the things we build and even the ones we freak out from building. When faced by very heartbreaking moments, what do you do? Go on with life.

Jesus was very instructive to his disciples and so told them, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these other things will be added unto you". Are there things you are lacking in life? Do your best to get them but trusting in God.

So what do we do when life is difficult? Rejoice that we can confide in the creator of all earth. This is very unique among the believers. Remember also the words of Paul, that what we are going through is common to men. In addition Paul tells us that the Lord will provide a way of escape so that nothings that can defeat us comes on our way.

Shalom