People ask me everyday what I want most out of life. I answer with a stereotypical and vague answer. To be happy. To get married one day. Have kids. Make a difference. And while those things are important, they are not the source of burning desire within me. They're not the things that inspire me get up each morning to face a day filled with challenges...not always, but sometimes. I do want to make a difference in the world. It sounds so optimistic and unreal. But I do...I want to make a difference, whether it be in one persons life or a thousand lives.
Yet the very thing that burns within me, that was placed in me when I was made. It is to serve and love my Father, my Jesus Christ every single day. To get up with purpose and to make His Glory known everywhere I go. I desire to be a carrier of His light and love. I desire to get closer to Him each and every day that I am alive. Just by letting Him shine through me is making a difference in someones life.
I am not satisfied with simplistic answers. I am not satisfied with getting up each day for work and school and just going through the motions, think that one day...one day I'll make a difference. One day Christ will shine through me. I don't want to wait for that day. That day is here, that day is now. My relationship with my Daddy grows every day. I desire a relationship with Him that Moses had...to have His glory shine on my face so brightly! Getting up every day, thinking of it as a chore...I'm not going to get that relationship with Him in that way.
Every day, I desire more and more of my Lord. Having a relationship, getting married...those things desired are minuscule compared to this. Sure...I do want a relationship. Sure, I want to be successful. But to have His glory shine everywhere I go...nothing can compare. To have Heaven on Earth...NOTHING can compare.
I hope that this desire burns within you as well. The people I most respect...Dave Weigel, Sue Weigel, Randy Dean, Brad Kehn, Bill Johnson...I know that it burns in them too. They inspire me so much, but not as much as that man called Jesus who walked on this earth, as a man, and carried glory all around Him, everyday, all the time and had a relationship with God that was just...incredible.
