Remember the game Trivial Pursuits?  It is a board game in which progress is determined by a player’s ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. 

We too play “trivial pursuit” ……but not the board game.  Ours is a game of life but we play the trivial pursuit angle.  We focus on the here and now, rather than the hereafter! 

Of course we live in this present world.  But oft times the present world becomes an end in itself.  Our agnostic friends say…..”when you’re dead your dead.”  The Greek Epicureans felt the same.  Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow” …guess what? You’re dead!! 

It’s all well and good to focus on going to heaven when we die but in reality, we try to stay around as long as possible.  Nothing wrong with that. 

As Believers, we know that life is a gift……..but we must use the gift of life wisely.  We don’t waste our precious days on “trivial pursuits.” Every moment of every day could be our last. 

When I get caught up in the nitty gritty complexities of life.  Why is my ice maker not making ice?  My dishwasher is full and it’s not working! I I forgot to pay  my credit card bill!  Nothing is going right for me!
These are my trivial pursuits.  They are important but they aren’t in the big picture.  I live in a world that often seems upside down and going crazy.  But that’s our world and you and I are in it. 

Luke 6:46-49 …” Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.  They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on a rock.  When a flood came the torrents struck that house, but could not shake it, because it was well built.  But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the sand without a foundation.  The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed, and its destruction was complete.”   

If we build our earthly “house” on the sands of this world, then when the storms of life come, we will feel lost and abandoned.  But when we keep living close to Him, even though the storms come……. which they will……we will find ourselves able to withstand the flood. 

Remember that God knows our trivial pursuits.  He is with us despite the adversities of what we are going through.  He is with us in our pain and suffering as well as our trivial pursuits. 

We all have our own particular “trivial pursuits.”  Mine is different than yours. 

                                                         Trivial Pursuits                                  

                                                         What are yours?