Living is...

Today's chapel message today was very thought-provoking. Actually, all of the chapels this week have been. It's Missions Emphasis Week at school, so we have had one missionary speaking the whole week. Today Dr. Hunt spoke on Phil. 1:20-21 about a God-Exalting Philosophy of Life, and his premise was that our philosophy should not be materialistic or even religious. Life isn't all about satisfying every pleasure or a list of do's and don'ts. It's about Christ, or it should be. Yet Dr. Hunt said that so many times we live Phil. 1:21 as if it said "For me to live is gain and to die is Christ." We want to live life as we want and have Christ at the end. But that's not what Paul's life philosophy was, and it's not what ours should be. "For to me to LIVE is CHRIST and to DIE is GAIN." So the question is, what am I living for? Have I given up all my life and rights to God, so that I don't mind if God chooses to place the expense of ministry on my account? It was convicting to me. And so I pass the thought along to you to meditate on personally. Oh that you and I would believe and live in light of the reality that living is Christ, and dying is gain!