We Are Like the Wicked City

Scripture: Revelations 18:14 “They will say, `The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.’

Observation: This verse is about what is going to happen to Babylon in the last days. However it describes everyone. There will come a time in everyone’s life that no matter what we have accumulated in wealth and what we planned to do with our lives , but didn’t get around to will not matter. Only what we do for the kingdom of God will last for all of eternity. People we help lead to our Lord will have a home in heaven, things we did to reach out to others may have turned a sinful heart towards God, but everything that we collected for ourselves will vanish, never to be recovered.

Application: Stop doing things that won’t last and get busy bearing fruit for my Lord and Master. I was at church yesterday for the Potter’s Field ministry and the Holy Spirit was pricking my heart when he said God created us for a purpose and only He knows the outcome. I need to be around God more so I can follow His leading in my life. He didn’t create me for me, but for His glory.

Prayer: My Lord I’m here because you desire it so. Take this selfish man away and fill me with the Holy Spirit so that I may bear fruit in glory and honor to you. I’m here to be used by you, so please use me the way you have created me. May I be pliable clay so that you can form me into the image you desire of me and may I become a noble vessel, that I may be used by you.