Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Stop playing with your balls

Have you ever stopped to think and ask yourself, "How am I living the one life I was given"?

Most of us would most likely say something to the effect of, "I work really hard so that I can buy the stuff I want, eat the food I want, live the way I want and then I go to sleep. Then I wake up and go work really hard so that I can buy the stuff I want......"


We want the big house, and the nice car. We want the latest iPad or flatscreen T.V.

I saw a documentary recently on the "Dung Beetle". Yes, I watched a show about Dung Beetles and I enjoyed it! So what.


It was quite amazing. They take the most repulsive things known to us (poop), and they play in it. They roll it around on the ground until it is round, and then depending on the type of Dung Beetle, they either eat the ball or they make their home in it.


They are thrilled to death playing with, eating, and living in.....crap.


I think when God looks at us and the goals we have set for our lives, he actually is watching a documentary on Dung Beetles.


We are thrilled to play with, eat, and live in the equivalent of a ball of crap.

Sound gross huh?

What I am trying to say is that if you are spending your life trying to accumulate wealth and the largest house on the block and the fanciest car and the flattest screen and dining at the most expensive restaurants, you are simply rolling around balls of crap.

The biggest house has never saved a life.

The nicest car has never pulled someone out of an addiction.

The flattest screen has never done anything for the widow.

Dining at the most expensive restaurant has never pulled an orphan from the grasp of hopelessness.

Stop playing with your balls. They may look good up close, but from a distance they are nothing more than stinking balls of crap.