What Is Your Aim?
What do you believe in?
I know it sounds like a simple question, but let me say it again, “WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?”
Well duh, Kristin, as a Christian, I believe in God! And that’s awesome! I do too!
But when you believe in something, you are SURE of it. Sure of what it can do. Sure of what it is. Sure that it will hold to be true when something tries to counteract it.
What we believe in, is the thing that we trust the most. And this is where I think my belief in God can get challenged. Do I REALLY believe that He is all I need? Do I REALLY believe that He is the answer to everything? Do I REALLY live my life as if He is my only aim in life?
Money. Fame. Bigger. Better. Trends. Addictions. Status. These all vie for our aim, don’t they? They all vie for our trust, telling us that if we just have “this”, our lives will be better. If we just obtain “this”, we will be happy. This is a conversation we have often in our home. Does “this” bring us closer to our aim or away from it? Does it serve self, or God?
My friend, if our aim in life is anything but God, our belief system is entirely skewed. If my trust is put in anything but God, my belief system isn’t what I say it is. As John Mark Comer says,
“We prepare for life BEFORE death, but we can’t neglect life AFTER death.”
Let that sink in for a minute. Are we spending the minutes and hours of our life for life here on earth or for a greater aim, which is HEAVEN?
That question has hit me to the core. We are all following and aiming for something or someone. Is our aim to become like Jesus or become like someone else in our social media accounts, in our friend group, or in our world? Is our aim to just obtain what will only satisfy here on this earth, and not in heaven? How are we daily preparing for life after death?
My belief in God is constantly challenged. Every waking day, it is a choice I need to make, to truly BELIEVE in God. To tell Him through my actions and words, that He is my only aim. My only goal. My only true hope. And by God’s grace, because I fail at this miserably, He keeps accepting me back.
May God and living life after death with Him, be our only aim. In doing so, this changes how we view people (caring more about their salvation than what they have). Changes our view one what we have (caring more about how we can use it for God’s glory than for ourselves). Changes our hearts (caring more about becoming more like Christ, than someone here on this earth).
A challenge that brings me to the foot of the cross daily. You too?
