Talk about being hit in the gut! This question was posed to me in Bible study and got me all riled up! Oh my gosh what if the answer is NOTHING? What if nothing I am doing truly matters? What if I am just running around like Chicken Little with my head cut off, not accomplishing much, but ruffling a lot of feathers. 100 years is a long time from now, what lasts over a century besides garbage bags and plastic bottles?
According to distractify.com if you compress all the time into minutes, the average person spends over 2 years watching commercials and 9 years or 80,486 hours watching TV, 1 year cleaning, 3 months waiting in traffic, 67 minutes a day eating, 5 years at a desk and 90,360 hours working. Women spend 8 years of their life SHOPPING, over 17 years on some kind of diet trying to lose weight and 14,000 hours doing our hair. 70% of our waking life is spent in front of digital media and 90% of our time is spent indoors!
Ouch! We all know that we need to probably cut down on T.V., Facebook, Pinterest, video games, or whatever else we do that distracts us from truly living but these numbers were depressing! I was tempted to start writing down a list of all my worldly achievements to prove my worth, or at least help me feel like I haven't wasted so much time!
I cried out, "God, God I don't want to stand before you and give you my list of all the things I have "done for you" thinking I am going to get an A+ or at least a solid B, but really you will just shake your head, with a sad smile, and say," Kimberley you kind of missed the point..." What AM I doing that will matter a 100 years from now?"
"Kimberley, it's really simple, Love God and Love Others! Love does not return void, even if is rejected, thrown away, ignored, trampled on, or only one-sided. All the other stuff the world has to offer, are only substitutes for LOVE. You can't take your money with you, your cars will rust, your house might crumble, the memory of you will slowly fade BUT THE WAY YOU LOVED OTHERS WILL LAST FOR GENERATIONS TO COME! When people are loved well, especially in my name, the effects are eternal. Love your husband like He is your greatest gift even when he doesn't deserve it, love your children, no matter what, pouring into them all my truths, love your enemies even when it hurts, and love the people I put in your life because I first loved you! That is what will matter when you stand before me."
"Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love." 1 Cor 13:13
