Sunday, January 26, 2014

Follow Me

Learn a new language.
Prepare for a career in an emerging industry.
Look your best.
Indulge your senses.
Your picture perfect vacation awaits.
Join us for a lavish evening of food and fun.
Discover a natural way to unwind.
Secure your future with investments in silver and gold.
So many opportunities. So little time. The invitations keep coming even though your calendar is already full. You think you have it all figured out and then someone shows you something that makes you question it all. It becomes a challenge not to feel overwhelmed.
How do you decide what is important? How do you decide where to invest your time, your money, your self? How do you decide how to live your life?
These are the decisions that define who you are and the legacy that you will leave; but when you are honest with yourself, you have to admit that most of these decisions are made on a whim, at the spur of the moment, based on how you are feeling at the time. Unfortunately, that combination leads to choices that you often come to regret.
When Matthew describes the Jesus’ life in Galilee (Matthew 3:23), he says that Jesus spent his time doing three things: teaching, preaching, and healing. Jesus’ teaching shows his concern for understanding. Jesus’ preaching shows his concern for commitment to the values of God’s kingdom.  Jesus’ healing shows his concern for wholeness.

I wonder how our lives would change if we based our decisions about the things we do on whether they led to greater understanding, deeper commitment, and authentic wholeness. My hunch is that our world would come to look much more like the kingdom of heaven.

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