WHAT HAVE YOU GAINED

Today's reading: Habakkuk

"What have you gained by worshiping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies!" Habakkuk 2:18 NLT

If we depend upon our wealth, how hard we work, our well we invest, how much we have, we're letting ourselves down.

If we trust in our health, how much we exercise, how rewarding it is to step on the scale, how few complex carbohydrates we consume, we're setting ourselves up to one day be slim and trim--but heavily disenchanted.

If we trust in our church membership, our parents' godliness or our names being listed on religious committee after religious committee, we're eventually going to find out we've abandoned our first love for the love of our self.

So what do we gain by honoring, giving excess time and effort, devoting ourselves to 'man-made idols'? Nothing, absolutely nothing other than a life wasted.

A life spent leaning into God for hope, for faith, for trust, for love--now that's a life worth living!