What are we doing for Heaven’s sake
As a family we went to church all my life. I remember sitting in a Methodist Church until I was nine, every Sunday morning.
I remember signing a pledge card that I wouldn't look at any alcohol or cigarette commercials. To this day I cut them off, and try not to hear them. The things I learned as a child have carried me through a lot of heartache and pain.
In the Baptist Church I learned about Jesus and what He did for me. I went on visitation teams, and social mission teams, as part of my religious training. I even graduated from a Christian College in Southern California.
I married a Baptist preacher, had a son, and tried to make sense of life.
I was so involved in church that I must have missed the point of how to become a Christian. I was attending every service and doing all the Christian things I was told to do, for Heaven's Sake.
Then something happened to change my total perspective on life as I knew it. My son was nine months old in January, 1969.
I was still involved in church and making sure he was enrolled in the nursery.
My role at this time was social chairman for our women's group.
So I got a man who was doing Christian coffee houses in our city to come and speak about those coffee houses and how they worked.
But the first arresting question that got my undivided attention was: “Have you come to the place in your spiritual life that if you were to die today you would be one hundred percent sure of going to Heaven?”
Wow!
I didn't hear anything about coffee houses or anything else that evening. I went home hounded by that question and wondered what I was doing for Heaven's sake. I told God down on my knees that if I wasn't a Christian could He make me one right then.
He did!
All the things I did before that night, were for nothing because I was doing it all for my sake. My life is so different now that friends back in my early days can't believe the changes.
But when you start doing things for Heaven's sake your whole outlook is a Christ centered perspective.
What are you doing for Heaven's sake?