[Brian's Thought for the day: Jan. 19th]
This thought hit me today--if everything was stripped away that you currently find your identity in, how would you live your life differently right now? So often we get caught up with the monotony of working hard to pay our bills and we spend most of our time/energy on temporal things. When we are younger we try to get our needs filled only to find our identity in the status of the things that we own or... do (i.e...cool car, expensive watches, designer clothing, impressive job, etc...). Then as we get older, we just continue to keep working so hard so that we can keep the things we've already accumulated and remain comfortable in life.
Our relationship with God often is like an old dusty book that remains on a shelf until it needs to be pulled down and dusted off when things in our comfortable world get out of control. The poor economy and job losses, family trauma, and so on, have brought many to the point of questioning what they have been investing their lives in. If you lost everything tomorrow--financial security, home, job, family, everything that we normally find our identity in--what would you then invest your time into? How would you live your life differently? How would your priorities change? That's the journey that God's been taking me on as of late and it's a completely different paradigm from what I've ever heard or experienced. ~ Brian
This thought hit me today--if everything was stripped away that you currently find your identity in, how would you live your life differently right now? So often we get caught up with the monotony of working hard to pay our bills and we spend most of our time/energy on temporal things. When we are younger we try to get our needs filled only to find our identity in the status of the things that we own or... do (i.e...cool car, expensive watches, designer clothing, impressive job, etc...). Then as we get older, we just continue to keep working so hard so that we can keep the things we've already accumulated and remain comfortable in life.
Our relationship with God often is like an old dusty book that remains on a shelf until it needs to be pulled down and dusted off when things in our comfortable world get out of control. The poor economy and job losses, family trauma, and so on, have brought many to the point of questioning what they have been investing their lives in. If you lost everything tomorrow--financial security, home, job, family, everything that we normally find our identity in--what would you then invest your time into? How would you live your life differently? How would your priorities change? That's the journey that God's been taking me on as of late and it's a completely different paradigm from what I've ever heard or experienced. ~ Brian
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"It's easy to be a "Christian" when life is good. The real sign of a person's relationship with Jesus is who they are when things are hard and it seems like life is falling apart." ~Brian