A person who makes the wrong decision about Jesus Christ lives his entire life in vain. When he dies after rejecting Jesus, he discovers how vain his earthly life was. Dwelling in Hell for eternity is the most horrible vanity of all. It never ceases.

A perfect marriage simply means each ‘1’ is committed to the other ‘1’ with such strength that the sum of them together is always ‘1.’ Following, the mathematical formula for the enriching part is 1 + 1 = 1 > 1,000,000,000. In other words, no richer life exists than the marriage of selflessness given to each other.

I committed one of the seven deadly sins last week. Truth is, I don’t even know what the seven deadly sins are. But based on April’s reaction, the sin I committed must be number one of all the deadly sins. It was a Friday night, and we had decided to go out ‘and paint the town red.’ That means a reckless night of debauchery, which neither of us is capable of. So we settled on a vigorous attempt to ‘paint the town magenta.’

Both those accounts deal with serving others using money. What about our time or material possessions? Can we be content in handing over our material possessions if it would serve better purposes for someone else? Sometimes we act as if that fourth car in our garage will be joining us in heaven even though we rarely drive it here. Do we truly need fifteen pairs of shoes?