In This World or the Next?

          I do not know if it is just the weather with the ice storm we are having or my lack of sleep last night, but I just feel disconnected today and nothing in particular stood out to me today.  That being said however, I did pick up one small verse out of Proverbs 11.

Proverbs 11:4 Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,
but right living can save you from death.

          I just thought about that simple little verse and how we live in this world today.  Are we living a righteous life that honors God or are we living a life that focuses more on our own needs and desires?  I know that it is normally not a 100% one or the other, but where is our focus a majority of the time?  Is it on God, or on everything else, but God?  If I honestly check my heart and my actions I would have to say it is maybe a 30/70 split.  Of course we say how can we possibly think about God all the time since there is so much else going on in our lives that we barely have time to sit down and take the time to think about Him.

          First the Bible tells us that every thought should center on God and He should be the main focus of our lives, everything centered on Him.  This may not seem like a realistic expectation, but if we are honest with ourselves we have already had this kind of focus in our lives.  Think back to the first time you fell in love with someone of the opposite sex.  How did you feel?  What did you do?  Were they not on your mind every day, hour, minute, and second.  Shouldn’t that be the way we feel about God?  After all that is the way He feels about us, but 100 fold more then that even.