Bible Algebra
C+O-S=J
Putting C hrist first in our lives and then serving O thers, while forgetting S elf, will bring the Christian great J oy.
This is really the formula for a blessed, fruitful life as a believer. Anyone who has lived for self, if honest, will attest to the fact that in the end it leaves the heart empty with an aching sense of non-fulfillment.
Here is what Solomon said, after years spent living for himself and absorbed with his own self-interest and self-importance. “So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 2:9-11). Let’s make sure we don’t conclude our lives this way!
