I think I'm finally getting it. Sometimes the most simple truths take forever to sink in for the precise reason that they are.....simple, not complicated.
I thought I had settled this issue years ago, but over time I keep revisiting it. It can be a big one for any person who desires to follow Jesus as closely as possible.
A few years ago I was living with my best friend for a couple of months during a transition. I had just left a very uncomfortable situation living with an alcoholic roommate, and I as well left a corporate job that was suffocating me. There was a lot of change going on at once. I actually felt I was being directed quite strongly by God to leave this position, so I finally jumped ship. The conviction was that strong. Although I believe God gives us a lot of freedom to make our own choices and that He doesn't micromanage everything we do, this was something He seemed to be putting his finger on quite strongly. I had to follow through.
I actually didn't work for about a month, so I spent this time pondering the future and where I was going. As I also waited for an apartment to open up in the same building as my friend, I had some free time to think about a lot of things. I sat down one afternoon and wrote a journal entry.
Generations come and go.
A man lives his days as if he has an eternity of them in one lifetime.
What if a man gains the whole world but loses his own soul?
The pressure consumes me to be this or do that.
I thought I had settled this issue years ago, but over time I keep revisiting it. It can be a big one for any person who desires to follow Jesus as closely as possible.
A few years ago I was living with my best friend for a couple of months during a transition. I had just left a very uncomfortable situation living with an alcoholic roommate, and I as well left a corporate job that was suffocating me. There was a lot of change going on at once. I actually felt I was being directed quite strongly by God to leave this position, so I finally jumped ship. The conviction was that strong. Although I believe God gives us a lot of freedom to make our own choices and that He doesn't micromanage everything we do, this was something He seemed to be putting his finger on quite strongly. I had to follow through.
I actually didn't work for about a month, so I spent this time pondering the future and where I was going. As I also waited for an apartment to open up in the same building as my friend, I had some free time to think about a lot of things. I sat down one afternoon and wrote a journal entry.
Generations come and go.
A man lives his days as if he has an eternity of them in one lifetime.
What if a man gains the whole world but loses his own soul?
The pressure consumes me to be this or do that.
But what of it?
Is not who I am now enough?
Is not who I am now enough?
"Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a women named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving; and then went to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." (Luke 10:38)
Many get trapped into striving for in this lifetime what can easily be taken away, in a moment. There is only one Person that can never be taken from us in this life or the next.
As Paul so eloquently stated:
"For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus or Lord." (Romans: 8: 38)
