It is worthwhile to waste your life and your time on the Lord (1picture + 1 experience with the Lord today) 30-day challenge

Especially at the end of the week, when everyone on Friday night wants to go out and party, I ask myself the same question again and again, Is this Worthwhile? Is it really worthwhile to waste my time and my energy on the Lord and on the church life? - or should I just "slide along" and drift along the current that sweeps everyone... or maybe just stay at home and catch up with some work, some rest... At least until now, as far as I see it and the Lord allows it / shows me concerning this, I think it is definitely worthwhile to waste my life and my time on the Lord. And I hope He will continue to strengthen this vision in each of His believers - His worth, His preciousness, His excellence, is so much more precious and worthwhile than anything or anyone else can offer...

1 Picture for today - The Corner Cottage, somewhere in Coventry

This is the Corner Cottage somewhere in Coventry. Very close to the campus. Some saints live there. They open their home for the visiting saints and for the students. This home has lots of bedrooms and a nice backyard, great for children to play. What really is nice about this house is the open heart and open fridge the saints have for the new ones, the students, the saints, everyone! Many people live for themselves, and they care ONLY for themselves, but these saints do not really care that much for themselves. I have been recently touched with the high price some people pay to be open not only to the Lord personally but also to be open with all they have towards the other members of the Body...

1 Experience with the Lord Today - It is Worthwhile to Waste Your Life and Your Time on the Lord

In the Gospels we see this particular lady who listened to the Lord Jesus when He was speaking, and she understood that He was about to die very soon. What she did was so sweet - she bought an alabaster flask with pure ointment and poured it on Him, "wasting" close to 1 year's worth of pay on the Lord Jesus(Matt. 26:8). To her, He was not just the Teacher, the Master, the Messiah, or even the Son of God - to this one, He was the most precious One, the most lovely One, and the One whom she loved. What she had most precious, she poured out on Him. [read the footnote on this verse] Others considered it a waste - to her, it was NOT a waste!

The Lord Jesus commended this woman saying that this is the story of the gospel - not only that God became a man to redeem man and bring man back to God, but also that man loves God and treasures God to such an extent that they pour out on Him what they have most precious. There is such a group of seeking ones and Jesus-lovers on the earth that don't look at the others, at the price, or at the time - they just "waste themselves and all they have" on Him. To those who love Him in such a way, He is altogether worthy of their offering - and they don't "waste" things on Him, but offer a sweet fragrant sacrifice to Him as a testimony of His beauty!

Practically, when it comes down to our living, how can we waste our life on the Lord since we see that He is so precious? This lady sought the opportunity and grabbed it so that she would do this. We also can grasp the opportunity today to waste ourselves on Him, especially as we see that His second coming is drawing near. The Lord Jesus is the most precious and lovely One, and it is worthwhile to waste our life and our time on Him. When we taste Him in the morning and we continue to contact Him throughout the day, He becomes so precious to us. The worldly things fade away, and their value decreases when compared to Him. Even more: we would gladly give up things, relationships, positions, golden futures - "wasting them" on the Lord Jesus....

Going even more practically into our daily life, I realized that making it to the home meeting on a Friday night, though I'm dead tired and super-loaded with things to do - wasting this time on the Lord with the saints is a worthwhile thing to do. It's not a waste - the Christ you gain and the fellowship you enjoy far surpasses anything or anyone else can offer you. Even while coming back from the home meeting last night, the view London had to offer... - drunk young men and women, people standing outside of the clubs and waiting, people smoking, some people being taken to the hospital while others are arrested because of the fight they got into... - though these things may seem "cool" outwardly, they rather make you empty inside and don't add up to an eternal meaning and worth....

Setting up a regular schedule to read the Bible, contacting the Lord early in the morning to enjoy Him, spending time with the Lord to confess your sins, praying with your companions, praying for your friends, talking to the Lord as you go through the day, opening your situation to some older saints for more fellowship, visiting the saints, being in the homes of the saints, etc - these are just some simple examples of how you "waste your life" on the precious and loveable Lord Jesus. He's worth it. He's so much more precious than words can describe! How I love Him...