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What I Really Want

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A small excerpt from my life goals list:

• Get married (to ginni)
• Have kids
• Run the Boston Marathon
• Finish my degree from The University of Texas at Austin

The full list is actually much longer than this, but these are the things that I would be most upset about not achieving if I were to die today. There isn't anything wrong with being upset about missing out on these things, but I think I take it too far. Sometimes (and by sometimes, I mean most of the time) I place more value in these things than I do at the prospect of eternity in Heaven.

You just have to take a look at my life to see that this is true. I desire to run the Earth, watch the sky, but I am really just looking at all the cool rocks that I am approaching. Since the beginning of time, over 125,000,000,000 people have lived. I am no more noteworthy than the other 124,999,999,999 people, yet I live as though my life is the most important thing. I have another 60-80 years left to do whatever I want. Shouldn't I be devoting it to something that will last longer than the memory of those around me?

Regardless of what I have going on in my life, whatever I do, I should be praising Him and giving Him glory. It is arrogant of me to think that my circumstances merit disobeying Him. If this should be the last day that I have before I breathe the air of Heaven, let me live it with abandon to the only One that remains after my last day here on Earth.

The point of your life is to point to Him.
~Francis Chan, Crazy Love

Posted on September 15, 2008 at 07:00 PM Read More 0 Comments

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