Where is Your Eternal Home?

We need to stop telling young people they can be anything they want. This is not only false but deceptive. A mentally challenged person cannot be all that they want, but they can be what
God made them. to be.

We need to begin telling young people to ask God what He wants them to be while teaching them to seek the Holy Spirit for guidance to that end.

I could never be an engineer, God never gave me a brain that can do all those complicated calculation. He did however give me an eye for color and shape that can be used in homemaking. I could never be something God never made me to be.

We live in a fantasy world of make believe, lying to children rather than helping them discern their own talents and gifts. So often the false encouragement merely tends to exasperate a child who is taught to fantasize about being famous and popular when showing them their own gifts based on reality would serve them much better. When we learn to enjoy how God made us we have peace and accomplishment.

The idea that we should manipulate a young person to believe they can be something that God never gave them talents for has will cause lethargy and discouragement. The devil loves to pretend that everyone can be a star just to watch them crash and burn when they do not achieve it.

If God calls us to be a street sweeper with a broom and dustpan then we can do it to His glory while enjoying the blessing of obedience to God. Its not about the job itself, its about or dedication to Christ that drives us to do our best with His help no matter what the job.

I am not impressed with "worldly accomplishment", my first question when someone brags about the job of another person is to ask, "are they born again." Because in the vast scheme of things that is all that matters.

One day those highly accomplished people will be going either to heaven or hell, God will not ask them how much money they made, who they knew or how much cherity they gave.

Matthew 7:21-23
"21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"

Some of the richest and most accomplished people are in hell right now and some that live now will also be there in the future. Let me add too that being poor is not a virtue either.

Those who were poor because they were lazy and selfish will also be in hell unless they have trusted Christ for salvation.

Bottom Line: Its not our status here on earth that will determine our eternal home.