And its as simple as remembering the core of who we are. The simple commandment: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
It has to stop being about what makes us feel good, because those feelings will never be enough. It has to stop being about what is best for your kid, because your kid can never live up to those things, at some point you or they will fail, and what you have taught them is that those expectations are constantly above you, just out of reach. It won't fulfill.
It has to stop being about putting on a happy face to walk into church - stop being about music being too old or too loud or too new. It has to stop being about me. Because I am a screw-up. And so are you.
Are you willing to put to death the part of you that says life is about my child being the star athlete?
Are you willing to put to death the part of you that says if a person has tattoos and screams into a microphone they cannot be worshipping God?
Are you willing to put to death the part of you that says family is more important than God?
Are you willing to give it all away, even your life, for God?
There are the questions I must ask, that you must ask, that we must ask.
Well, God isn't calling me to.
Don't make light his grace - because its not about you. Its not about me. Christ must be the center. Nothing else will fill. Nothing else will save. Its not a buffet - a pick and choose what you will. Its not about being blessed - its about God. That He be glorified. Is He glorified in you? Does your life, your house, your car, your family, your job give Him glory?
Do you love God with all your heart, soul, and mind?
Because, I realized, my desires are deceitful, causing me to run in guilt and shame from the one I was created for. But I don't have to run, I don't have to fear giving up my "heaven" on earth, because these sufferings, these pains, these what we believe "unbelievable blessings and riches" will not compare to what is to come.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind."
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