Several years ago when I was eleven I had the privilege of attending a mission’s conference in Houston, TX that greatly impacted my life. The guest speaker for the week of the conference was Dr. David Gibbs. During one of the preaching services Dr. Gibbs brought a message that I will never forget. As a matter of fact it really affected our whole family in a positive way. The title of his sermon that night was, “What is your cause?” He began by describing how many different causes we find in this world and how people are investing all of their time, energy and resources for their particular cause. Then he directed the message towards the congregation and asked the question, “what is your cause? You see as Christians we have the greatest cause to be alive on this earth and we find that cause clearly expressed in the Word of God. No Christian ought to go through life wondering what life is all about. Only one cause is truly worth living for and that is to live for Him which died for us and rose again. If we truly have the greatest Cause on earth as believers, what sacrifices are we making for our cause? I think what convicted me the most about the message I heard that night was when Dr. Gibbs began to share how he had determined to read the Bible in its entirety every month. That means that he was reading the Bible twelve times a year. At first I was in disbelief. I thought, “How could you possibly do something like that? You would have to spend your whole day reading the Bible. It’s amazing how when you do the math it really isn’t that hard. You would only have to read the Bible for a little more than an hour a day and you would reach your monthly goal. He challenged all of us to try it. He said that when you read the Bible in that way you will find that some interesting things will happen to you. Well, I went home and tried it and sure enough I felt like never before. I could hardly think of anything else except the Word of God. It was as though I could see the Scriptures in front of my eyes at all times. I wish I could tell you that I have read the Bible every month since then but I would be lying. It’s so easy to get involved with other things and just flippantly skim through the Bible. But the question remains the same, “what is your cause?” Maybe I should rephrase the question, “are we living our lives as though we had a cause?” What do we spend most of our time doing? What consumes the majority of our energy? Where do we spend the majority of our money? What do we think about the most? Whatever that may be is ultimately our cause.