what do you live for?

Yesterday I was in Wal-mart and I saw a rack of posters in one of the aisles. It had the usual - Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, and the rest of the Disney stars prominently featured. But at the very front was a Twilight poster. After shuddering over Robert Pattinson's red-eyed stare and messed-up hair, I noticed that it said something on the top.

"If you could live forever, what would you live for?"

The question hit me as strangely true. I'm probably one of the only teenage girls who hasn't read the Twilight series, so I have no idea what the book/movie's answer to that question was. Something to do with love or vampires, I'm sure. But it struck me that, as Christians, we can live forever. We know that, even though our physical bodies may die, our spirits will live on eternally with God.

So what do we live for?

We all know that Christ should be the answer to this question. But how many of us can honestly say that we live for Christ every second of every day? That we love him above all else, even things like money, fame or love? Just a thought.

On another note, there's a guy I know from church who has a reputation for godliness. Friday night at Free Pizza Friday at our church, I was talking with some friends of mine. They were saying that he prays about everything - and I mean everything. One girl exaggerated and said, "He probably even prays about what to eat! It's like, 'Dear God, should I have cheese or pepperoni pizza?'" Today in Sunday school we were talking about gossip and one of this guy's friends told everyone that when the conversation even sounded like they were about to start to gossip, he'd say, "Hey, guys, let's not talk about that." He shares his faith boldly and openly with friends and coworkers. He's known at his school to be a Christian, unable to stop telling classmates about Christ, and having to be told to take his Bible off his desk. He always serves at church, even to taking all the girls' chairs after Sunday school and stacking them so we don't have to. See what I mean when I say he has a reputation for godliness? How cool is it that everyone knows he's a Christian by the way he lives, that no one has to ask him what he believes because they already know. I want to live like that.