What Do You Live For, Really?

In 2011, an inventor presented his idea for a unique alarm clock on the television show “Shark Tank.” The clock, called Wake n’ Bacon, was designed to start cooking bacon just before the alarm went off so that its owner could wake up to the aroma of sizzling bacon.

What wakes you up in the morning? What do you live for? Some people might say, “Well, I just live to live. I take it one day at a time.” To them, life is mere existence. They have no philosophy to speak of, no objective they live for. They just live for the moment. They may even say, “Eat, drink, and be merry.” But that’s a bad philosophy for life.

What Do You Live For?

Jesus told the story of a man who was very successful financially. He had so many possessions that he didn’t have enough room to contain them, so he built buildings to house his stuff. In fact, he said to himself, “You have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!” (Luke 12:19 NLT)

Greg Laurie
Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie is the senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside and Irvine, California, and founder of Harvest Crusades, large-scale evangelistic events that are held across the world.

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