What is your one thing? The one thing that if you lost everything else you would be content and survive. For some it is family, others freedom, and still yet others fame. But all of these things can be taken away. Your family can be taken away, split up, or even executed. Freedom can be lost in a day or less, as most prisoners know. Fame is fleeting because no one can hold the attention of the world very long. Take for instance movie stars, music stars, and celebrities, they all have their day in the spotlight, but inevitably someone else comes along and take the limelight and captivates people with something new. For collectors and consumers it may be possessions but this too is folly because stuff can be lost, stolen, and destroyed. A film called, "The Lady in Gold," starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds is a great example of how something you own can be taken away.
For others ambition, work, and their passions are their one thing. But ambition eventually reaches its limits, work will become one day well work, and passions can give pleasure for a time, but they can fade or lose their luster. So then what should be our one thing? Is if faith? Is it religion? Getting close and warmer. The one thing is Jesus Christ. Not a church, but Christ. Not a custom, Christ. Jesus need to be on One Thing. Unlike all I have listed, Jesus cannot be taken away from you. He said, "I am with you always, even unto the End of the World." (Matthew 28:20).
We may have our family ripped apart, we may find our freedom taken, our fame falling away, our collections corroding, our possessions perishing, our ambition annihilated, work wasting away, and our passions plummeting. But Jesus will not leave us, He is the constant. He won't change on us (), He won't get tired of us, and He loves us always. (). Life and the legions of hell may throw everything at us, but we have the one thing that matters, Jesus! He is that pearl that we "sell everything we own to possess." (). He is the Tree of Life that feeds us figs when this world offers famine.
Have you made Jesus Christ your one thing? What are you waiting for? Everything in this life we try to make our one thing instead of Christ will cause us discontent and continual emptiness. Why not seek the One thing that matters? Why not lay hold of the One Thing that can satisfy the wandering in your soul, the restlessness in your heart, and the weariness of the mind?
There are some that say Jesus is the bandage or crutch for life. Well I say to that Jesus is Life and without him this time on earth is death. We really have a wrong perception. This life is death, we perish unless we believe in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace; then life fills us and when we leave this world we come to full life! Until then we are waiting in the world of death, holding on to the One Thing worth every drop of sweat and blood.
One thing.. Jesus. Make Him your One thing. He is not fantasy or fiction, but as real as your heart beating, your hand touching the mouse or touchscreen, and the technology you use to read this. But He is more, He is God and He loves you. Make Him your One thing today, pray this:
"Jesus, I want you to be my One Thing. I repent of all my sins, wicked deeds, and bad choices. Please come into my heart and life, be my savior, Lord, God, and One Thing. Amen."
-"My One Thing" is a song by Rich Mullins, a prolific Christian musician who sings songs that are honest and Christ seeking. Take a listen:
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