More importantly, where is our hope?
Are we so blind with our wordly focus that we miss God right in front of us?
What consumes your thoughts?
These questions went around and around in my head all day yesterday and honestly, I was not happy with the answer. I started to think about it this way; What would we really regret in heaven?
Will we be standing there saying, "Man, I wish I had gotten an A on that exam. Wish I had been able to receive a better paycheck." I hope not! I have a feeling, if we could have regret in heaven, what we would really regret is if we did not praise God everyday of our life. If we did not live up to our full potential by becoming homeless to this world to find a home in Christ.
Does that mean we get Cs on our exams because we are reading our Bible every minute of the day? I don't think so. It means we praise God through our studying. We seek God through the routine of life and find our acceptance in the presences of God. When we find ourselves in Christ, we truly find ourselves in the image of God, we lose everything to this world; we lose all commitments and ties; we lose all desires and idols that we believe are "so" important. For when we find ourselves and our worth in Christ, does anything else really matter? Does appearance matter? Does money matter? Does our relationship status matter?
We are instead consumed with the urgency to run after the only thing that matters in this life.
So after thinking over this thought I evaluated my life. What consumes my thoughts in my life more than God? For whatever consumes our thoughts more than God automatically becomes idols in our lives. I'm going to be honest, I'm really ashamed of what consumes me, but here we go, the things that consume my thoughts:
My Image. Being Accepted. Future Events. To be Loved.
I wish they didn't, but these are the four major things that I would say consume my thoughts more than God. As I was sitting there looking at these daunting words, God completely rocked my world. Rearrange those words for a minute....Future, Acceptance, Image, Loved.
Get it? It spells out FAIL. God knows no coincidence and I do not believe this is an exception when writing these out. To the point where I had to laugh at the irony. When I put my hope in one or all of these words, I set myself up to FAIL. I see it in my past, I see it now. Every time I have failed and fallen flat on my face is when I have put my hope in my Future, Acceptance, Image, or Love. Only when I find my hope in the presence of God do I lose all focus of worldly things.
So I ask the question again, what consumes your thoughts? Where is your hope found?
For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - See more
at:
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Strongholds#sthash.4NDMrtG8.dpuf
For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - See more
at:
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Strongholds#sthash.4NDMrtG8.dpuf
For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - See more
at:
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Strongholds#sthash.4NDMrtG8.dpuf
For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - See more
at:
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Strongholds#sthash.4NDMrtG8.dpuf
For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - See more
at:
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Strongholds#sthash.4NDMrtG8.dpuf
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