"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."
John 6:27

    My message pretty much won’t change around here.  It’s simply, put your entire life into living for God and His will.  What I put on this website is just fuel for the fire.

    The problem is that I think we (as Christians) hear that so much that we think that just because we hear it we are actually living it out (it’s the doer of the word that is blessed, not just the ones that hear it).  As Christian Americans specifically, we need to wake up and get real with God and stop thinking that just because we go to church every Sunday, and maybe even volunteer or do a weekend mission trip that we are actually doing what Jesus called us to do.  Living according to Luke 14:25-35 requires everything from you.  It’s not how to fit doing "God’s work" into our current lifestyle, it is turning our lifestyle into nothing but His work.

    In the verse above Jesus is talking to some of the people that just witnessed the multiplying of the 5 loaves of bread.  The next morning they went across the sea to chase after Jesus, which you think would be a good thing, but Jesus actually rebuked them.  Jesus knew their motives, just like He knows ours.  He says:

"The truth is, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you saw the miraculous sign.”
John 6:26

    Take this verse and put it into today’s Americanized Christianity.  So many of us seek Jesus, not because of wanting to be in His presence and glory, but because He “feeds” us.  He “feeds” our lifestyle, or He “feeds” our principles for living, or He “feeds” our banks with money. 

    This doesn’t sit well for the current prosperity message that many of the prominent preachers are speaking of today.  Yes, God wants us to prosper, but not so we can build our own kingdom, it’s so we can build His.  If we mature from the prosperity message to the PROVISION message we would be much better off.  Provision for doing the will of God full time.  Not prosperity for our friends and neighbors to admire.  God’s supernatural prosperity is given to continue in His will without relying on the ways of this world.

    To many of us are seeking God’s PRESENTS instead of His PRESENCE.

    Jesus tells us here not to work for the food that will just spoil on us.  He said instead to seek and work for the true and eternal food that will never perish that only He can give.  He is literally telling us not to expend energy on the things that won’t last.  Yet, what do we spend so much of our time on?  Maintaining material things that is destined to come to an end.

    Remember, Jesus also said:

 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal."
Matt 6:19

    Why can’t we simply take Jesus at His word and do what He says?  It’s hard that’s why!!!  We’ve been so conditioned, even in the church, to store up treasures here on earth.  Even in the church world a blessed life is measured by your house, car, and job.  We’ve lost touch of the true Kingdom of God that Jesus demonstrated and gave us freely.

    We need to get real and figure out what Jesus really wants from us.  How do we change from working for things that spoil and go bad on us, to seeking after the eternal things that Jesus wants and promises to give us?  We just start.  Wherever you are, you just start by making a decision to lay down the things we are working for that will just rust and corrode and learn to pick up the will of God and receive the things He wants to give instead of these poor manmade substitutes.