As I was riding my bike recently, I passed by a town sign with the slogan, “Where Life Is Worth Living”. I couldn’t help questioning that statement as I rode on my merry old way.
However, I realized that if a person, town, or country is not looking to Jesus as the source of their life, then life (if you can call it that) must be found in something else or someone else. I wonder, how many of us are being seduced by worldly slogans?
Moses, the man of God, exhorted the nation of Israel to choose life. He then proceeded to declare that life is found in loving the Lord, obeying Him, and cleaving to Him because, “He is your life”. Both the cause and purpose for your life are found only in Jesus.
How important it is for us to cast down those enemy slogans that would like us to think that life or purpose can be found in anything or anyone other than Jesus.
Seek Him today with all your heart. Listen oh so carefully to His Word today. Don’t settle for existence on a purely human level, when life more abundantly awaits you.
Pastor Ray,
Productive bike ride! It is interesting that towns and cities use slogans to seek self identity, recognition, purpose, or status. City nicknames can also take negative angles, for example, “Sin City” or “The city that God forgot”. The first nickname is clearly about how we live our lives but in a more subtle way, so is the second one.
There is doom through sin or life through God whether you lived in Sodom and Gomorrah then or live in a nice suburb now. Can there be a city that God forgot? One of the thieves asked Jesus to remember him in His kingdom- he was not forgotten. Maybe this city should choose revival and stop pointing fingers at God. How about making an official declaration dumping its nickname and placing Deuteronomy 31:6 at city hall? “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” Unfortunately naysayers will try to either rip the sign out or hire lawyers. THAT is the true problem.
False hope through slogans. Condemnation through nicknames. Towns do not have the grace to make our lives worth living. Nor can they make God’s grace forget us. Thank God for that.
Blessings!
JoseM