Hi guys & girls,

A couple of blog entries ago, I wrote about the burden upon my heart to see you all run the race and finish it well. (I still haven’t been able to shake this!)

We are passionate, zealous and committed to God now. Praise God! I pray that we will be all these, and to a far greater extent in the last days!

Jesus said  “Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or-worse!-stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.” (Matthew 6:19-21, The Message)

Did Jesus have foresight when He said that? Of course He did! He knows this place inside out! Heaven is His ‘hood! And this is the place we as believers will be having an eternal rendez-vous with our Lord for the rest of eternity after we pass from this life! This, my friend, is the place we should be investing our lives in.

70 years on earth may seem a mightly long time. Eternity is WAY longer!

Lately, I have been thinking a lot of our lives – how are we, as young people in this ipod-generation, choosing to live our lives? When we have the truth in our lives, these are questions we should seriously consider, and come to a resolution about.

- How are you spending you life?
- What are you investing in your life?
- Is what you are investing in eternal? Or will moth, dust and burglars have their share of your posessions?
- Have an honest evaluation – what are your treasures?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating a poverty (drive a bomb, live in a hut, wear torn clothing) mentality. By all means – we should enjoy the blessings God has given to us! That’s what they’re there for!

But let us not let our blessings and freedom in life blind us from the fleeting nature of life. Perhaps it is for this reason that the God urged us to ’spur one another on’.

Ablaze – are we accommodating each other’s self seeking lifestyles? Or we are spurring one another on, asking those difficult questions?

My prayer is that we would be a community that does the latter, so that we will all run, and finish the race well.

Your fellow runner,

Lisa