Are we living for eternity?

"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"

This question is etched on the tombstone of Leonard Ravenhill. Its a solemn reminder to Christians that Christ died to purchase us from sin. As the Apostle Paul states, "You are not your own, but you were bought for a price."

Don't you think that it grieves the Holy Spirit, when He's wanting to lead us into truth, wanting to empower us for witness, wanting to glorify Christ in our lives, and we're laid out on the couch watching television and eating junk food? When He wants to visit us in times of prayer, but rather than talk to God, we spend more time gossiping to neighbors? Instead of reading God's word, we absorb information from all sources of media, and then wonder why we don't have the power of God in our lives to abstain from sin and live for eternity.

Looking back from eternity, the things we consider wonderful now must look so dull. Lord help us to be tombstones (men and women dead to this world) with that same message etched upon our lives, a message to the world, "Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"