In a world obsessed with material things, temporal things, here-and-now things, many have lost sight of the things that really matter. And as we focus on money, comfort, success, life quietly slips by … until it’s gone.

For years I sacrificed my family life on the altar of career, comfort and success. It ended up costing me my first marriage. Looking back on it, I’ve come to realise that the spoils of the rat race, into which we all seem to have been dropped, simply aren’t worth it. Silver and gold, in the end, ain’t what life’s all about.

1 Peter 1:18-19 You know that in the past the way you were living was useless. It was a way of life you learned from those who lived before you. But you were saved from that way of living. You were bought, but not with things that ruin like gold or silver. You were bought with the precious blood of Christ’s death. He was a pure and perfect sacrificial Lamb.

All those here-and-now things that we’ve been told are oh-so-important, will one day be completely meaningless. In fact, when you think about it, they’re pretty much meaningless today.

Jesus came to save us from all that, to pluck us out of that rat race, to reset our lives with what truly matters … from now into all eternity.

You were bought, ransomed, set free with the precious blood of Christ’s death.

It cost Him everything. Stop living the old way. You’ve been saved from that life. Follow Jesus.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.