I'm tired of running in hamster wheels. All kinds of crazy motion going no where. The best thing that is happening is that I'm getting a good workout. You gotta love that benefit - running on a treadmill is probably the most boring kind of running, so if I'm going to run I want to run somewhere. The more I run, the thirstier I get, so the more I run to find satisfaction - but it's not there.
Here's the good news, I know I'm here for and with purpose. Life isn't meaningless, it's meaningful as I fulfill my purpose. It's not without difficulty; there's all kinds of difficulty, but I have the opportunity to be courageous in difficulties. Because I can have strength of purpose to overcome, face, and withstand difficult times. What is my purpose?
To shine the Light of the World to everyone I meet, in action and word. On campus, in church, in community, in family: live for Christ. What's that mean? It means I put myself behind the rest. When I got off the hamster wheel to nowhere, I only began to get anywhere as I put myself aside and served Christ and others. It's not about me - that's good news. And it is satisfying. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. I don't have to live a life of self-denial, I live a life of joy and satisfaction because God is my satisfaction. More than denying myself, I want more of Him. He's better than anything I chased hard after on the hamster wheel, because no matter how much I got, I still had to run and got nowhere.
Purpose? I like purpose, and I like satisfaction. I like to live purposefully, courageously, so that I will be more satisfied.
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