What Exactly is Your Chief Aspiration?

© 2022 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

What drives you?  Some might answer:  “I want to become wealthy.”  Others might answer:  “I want to become famous.”  I once knew a man who said, “I want to live to be 120 years old.”  For each of these aspirations, and many others, there is one question which comes to my mind.  It’s this.  “Suppose you attain your aspirations: What then?”

Often people ask children what they want to be when they grow up.  Perhaps a better question would be, “What would you like to accomplish for eternity before you die?”

Our life in this body is infinitesimally short compared to eternity which follows.  When our short life is over, each individual faces a conscious eternity of either torment or blessing at God’s hand. (see Matthew 25:31-46)

I once worked for a company which hired a CEO to lead them in achieving incredibly high profits.  Members of his executive staff told me he often bombarded them with obscenities.  He consistently took the Lord’s name in vain as he verbally abused them during staff meetings.  However, because of his success in leading the company to lucrative heights, his year-end bonuses were incredibly huge.  I never heard him discuss his chief aspirations.  However, it seems unlikely that they were focused on telling people about Jesus Christ, the Savior.  Instead, his actions seemed focused on achieving wealth in this world with little thought of eternity.  My heart sorrows as I think of what awaits those who don’t know Christ on judgment day.  Only if the Lord takes control of the aspirations of a man’s heart, will he escape eternal torment.  This is true for each of us.

Scripture tells us:

“… as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”  (Hebrews 9:27-28)

On that judgment day, those who have ignored Christ, shall be ushered into eternity by His following command.

“… Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matthew 25:41)

God the Son, Jesus, came and died to save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:20-21)  However, only those who trust Him in repentant faith shall be saved.

Are your aspirations focused only on this life, or does the reality of eternity take precedence in your heart?

 

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