Daily Inspirational Bullshit. C- for effort though.

What are you building with your life?  A career or God's Kingdom?  You can seek to become important to other people, or you can seek to be important to God.

This was a quote on a daily Christian inspirational calendar. From the surface it doesn't sound like there is anything wrong with this.  It basically trying to get you to remember that you aren't trying to work to be "worldly successful", but rather be a worker in Gods Kingdom to bring him glory.

But look again.  Look at what it says.

First...building a career and building God's Kingdom don't have to be mutually exclusive.  Isn't a pastor a career?  What about social workers?  Those that work in humanitarian aid?  That's building Gods Kingdom too, caring for those nobody else is caring for.  Whether it is "for God" or not, it is.

And lets get something straight.  You are already important to God.  Nothing you do or don't do, say or don't say will make you any more or less important.  And God wants people to be important to you.  That whole love your neighbor as yourself bit.  So in return, you will be important to others.

So please, enough with stuff like that without putting any thought into it.