Thursday, February 25, 2021 - From the Shepherd's Heart

 

I hear so many young people sharing about their dreams and goals for life...marriage, education, career, financial.  There is nothing wrong with dreaming and having goals.  However, for a follower of Jesus Christ, we do not have a life that we can plan, promote or pursue.  

Our life is in Christ.  He does not come into our lives to help us accomplish our goals or dreams.  He did not die for us to have our best life yet apart from death to self and living only for Him.

His death and resurrection is worthy of our complete resignation and death of our dreams, goals, and life so that Christ might have preeminence in all we dream, do, and accomplish.

Romans 2: 8 describes one as under the judgment of God and thus not a follower of Christ by saying "these are self-seeking, and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger."

God is not for those who set their own dreams and goals, in fact, just the opposite.  His anger and wrath are kindled against them.  

This kind of self-centered pursuit may be popular, but it is not biblical.  We are meant to spend ourselves seeking God's glory (not our own), achieving His eternal purposes (not our temporal goals), and bearing witness to His life in us.