Forget the World

YES!  Forget the world!  It really has nothing to offer.  The condition of the world speaks for itself.  I think of those who have ever achieved any tremendous amount of success, like a star athlete or a law maker of some sort, or a television icon.  If I follow the life of someone rich and famous I see that they are not happy.  In fact, for some reason, these unhappy people are who the entire world wants to be.  It seems that the world has made us completely stupid.  The typical actor can never keep a relationship together and every time something new happens in their life its in a million different news articles.  The role of that actor in his/her work changes all the time to showcase a way of life or person that they, in reality, may not want to promote.  As the fame, money, possessions and attention come, so does the emptiness of finding out that after inheriting the world...something is still missing.  Yet the entire world strives to be like this person.  People buy things they can't afford and work crazy hours just to afford a lifestyle like this person.  As if they're trying to become more like their idol or icon.  When life slaps these followers in the face and their plans to become more like their idol fall through, they themselves fall into depression because THAT is their hope in life.  THAT, meaning their idol, themselves also ends their life or their prime...unhappy and broken. 
Looking at this big problem, it seems to me that this world is closer to God than most may think.  Because when we realize there is a problem we do away with the old us.  That is about the only thing this world does right is realize there is a need for change.  We get everything else completely wrong.  Instead of denying ourselves and following Jesus, we follow our icon or our idol.  Instead of being more Christlike, we become more like our idols or icons.  And we rely way too much on self help when the bible is very clear that we can not do life alone.  When we do invite others into our lives to rely on them to fix our problems, we never stay fixed and usually end up in even worse condition than we would have had we allowed Jesus to be sovereign over our lives (see Luke 11).  Forget the world, it has nothing to offer!  The fallen condition of this world has us believe we need to achieve all we can achieve and pursue our potential and have as much fun as possible before your days are over.
When are we going to realize that this world only has table scraps to offer in comparison to the feast that awaits us in the eternal kingdom of the living God?
What an indescribable peace there is in trusting in Jesus.  Taking Him at His word.  Watching Him come through and living out that abundant life that He promises us both now and after this life.  Having an amazing quiet time in the Word as He speaks to us and shares His love and many promises to us.  We have a great God, Father, Friend, Savior and many other things in our Lord Jesus, and I wouldn't trade Him for the world. :)