We have been advised by health professionals to lower our caloric intake, to reduce our weight and eat healthy with regular exercise. We’ve been told that doing these things relieves stress and increases years to our lives. We are also instructed to get some rest and relaxation and to take vitamins to replace minerals that our bodies are no longer producing or contain.Â
I for one try to partake in all of the suggestions mentioned. But then I look at it from another angle.
Everyone talks about the duration of life more than the deposit of life. We were sent here to make a contribution into the Kingdom of God for his purpose. I know we attend prayer, bible study and Sunday morning services, but what contributions are you making to add souls to the kingdom?
Jesus displayed the deposit of life. He lived a short 33 and a half years, but made life- and soul-altering changes to mankind. In John 7:33, Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time.”
He knew the purpose God had for him and was here on Kingdom business. He ministered to the poor, fed the hungry, gave sight to the blind, healed the lame, cast out devils and died on a cross for a world that did not know or understand him. He made an astronomical contribution to life for the purpose of the Kingdom.
“Deposit” means to put or set down; to place. That is exactly what Jesus did; he put things in place, set up ordinances; and he put down sacrilegious ideologies. Because he did it, so should we. He said that we are to do greater works than he.
That is an awesome statement. Talk about encouraging your kids to greatness! Good parents always want their children to excel past them; they always desire them to go farther than they did. That is what God is saying to us! Of all of the miracles and ministry of Jesus he said that we are to do GREATER!
That blows my mind. Anybody who studies the bible knows what Jesus did. God said we are to do greater works! In order to accomplish this, we must begin to work on the deposit of life and minister to the lost, the hurting, the backslidden, the weak and feeble-minded, the discouraged and hopeless.
The devil wants us to continue with the duration of life because it is selfish and self-willed. You are only trying to reap the harvest of long living, but the deposit of life causes us sow and give to others out of ourselves in order to increase God’s kingdom.
