day no. 17,011: nothing and everything else

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.” — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Everything but God is nothing.

Whatever a man has, if he has not God, it is not his. He does not possess himself let alone his toys. He cannot keep himself. How could he keep baseball card collection.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

You can spend your life willfully ignoring this reality, but you cannot keep your life from being spent. The only question will be what did you purchase with it? If you give your life to getting things, you will lose your life and your things along with it. If you give your life to Christ, you get your life back and everything else along with it.

Matthew 6:33

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

If you seek God first, you get everything else.

If you seek anything else first, you get nothing.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

Your life will be poured out into something and wherever that is, there it shall be.