What do you value in life?

What do you value?

*** So many of the younger people feel that it is so hard today... Just because they do not have all the latest stuff... ***

Date:   6/7/2013 5:50:44 PM   ... viewed 1959 times


How can or do you come to find value in your life?

All things of any real value are compared to some reliable - high standard...

 **** There has to a standard to determine value, because either 
some thing is real and valuable or else false or counterfeit!


Some things of great value are i.e.: gold, silver, diamonds, solid currency, 
high quality land, or many other things!
The greatest of these is the Kingdom of Heaven! Thus their value is
 established by the comparison to the greater value item or thing!
 This is the same with your soul in eternity!
Either you will choose God and follow His Awesome Heavenly plan or
 fall short seeking after following the things of this world; which pale in
 comparison and of little or no real value!

Romans 1:21
New International Version (NIV)

1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor 
gave thanks to Him, thus  their thinking became futile and their foolish 
hearts were darkened.

*** The Greek word rendered {magnify} here is the same one translated "glorify" in Romans 1:21 - therefore both magnify and glorify can be used interchangeably...

Because it is the same thing to either Magnify or Glorify! So to glorify God is 
to magnify Him!

Most people tend to not glorify or magnify God in their lives...
 However as far as your perception and experience of God goes; your esteem 
of Him, can make Him either smaller or larger in your life!
it all depends upon you and how you react and believe.

You can either choose to magnify God and diminish your earthly problems or vise versa! But the sad truth is most of us have become masters of making
 the smallest, most insignificant things in our life larger - thus minimizing God and His Word in our life!

Most often when we make something a major problem  it becomes so only became so because you have magnified it and made it larger!
 It comes down to how you perceive things...
 Honestly, some of the things people get so upset about are really nothing of great importance...

Such thinking makes you want to send these people on a one way trip to 
some third world country - where they really experience hardships and grief!
Then they would have a whole new perspective -
 and they would magnify things very differently!

Much of it comes from all the peer pressure, and all the over rated ads 
{most based upon a false premises} driving people to lust {desire} for all this stuff... Most of which they can not afford or need.

Mainly because they have magnified " peer pressure " to such a grand extent - that they need to feel good about themselves and have " a positive self-esteem!" HUH!

Yet people a hundred fifty years ago, were mainly just living trying to survive 
to live another day! They did not have time to think about their self-esteem... Daily life was their most important activity...

The reason so many are so messed up emotionally today is because we have misplaced our true values! People no longer really care about anyone else but themselves...