03Aug16

Colossians 1:29 (NKJV)
To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

I was watching a movie the other day and a group of fighters celebrated a victory by firing their AK-47s in the air together. I immediately thought two things: 1. What a waste of ammo (now they have to reload those clips). 2. What goes up must come down. There is a lot of force behind those rounds. They will fall on something, somewhere. Maybe someone. But, this is what happens when we just put a bunch of effort into our day to day life without direction. We work really hard, we fire into the air, but we have no idea where we are going to land. To what end do you labor?

The inverse of this is an expert marksmen who takes his time, trains his body, and focuses his sights on a target with the intent to put all that force to a use. To what end do you labor? God lends us His mighty power to exert on this world. What do you do with it? To what end do you labor? Let's not waste another round firing into the air aimlessly. Let's take aim, breathe, and control how we exert our power.