THE ONE THING

Saturday, January 21, 2006

What is your “one thing”? What is the “one thing” you are ready to give up anything and everything for?

The movie “City Slickers” was about guys from the city who visit a dude ranch and participate in an old-fashioned cattle drive. There is one scene where a wizened old cowboy named Curly holds up one finger and asks the city dude if he knows what that means. He doesn’t. Curly explains that it represents the “one thing” that life is all about. When the dude asks what that is, Curly answers: “That’s what you’ve got to find out.”

So, what is it for you? Have you found the “one thing”?

Is it fame, money, power, pleasure, your family, your job, your church?

Three thousand years ago King David said: “One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his Temple.” Psalm 27:4

Is this too high and holy---too heavenly minded?

If Curly is right and the “one thing” is what life is all about, let me ask again---what is your “one thing”? Is it money, pleasure, power? Is this really what life is all about?

JUST ASKING!