So, last night I was reading one of my current pieces of reading material, The Prodigal God by Tim Keller and I have been stewing on the latest sermon that I watched by John Piper and combined those with the sermon that Pastor Dave offered this week at NMC and I am convicted beyond belief to do some changing in my life. I have been on this season of examining my life and seeing where I can cut costs, improve effectiveness, and continue to live my life for the coming reward, rather than that of the empty rewards here on earth. Last night, I had this moment when I was sitting in my house, reading and waiting on laundry where I asked myself, "Self, are you even living a life that desires Christ more than anything?" I was singing songs that seemed to desire God and to love Him with reckless abandon, but I was overcome with this sense that I was still holding onto some things and areas of my life that needed to be His.
I am struck by the fact that there are hundreds of students around me that are beginning to get it and yet, I sit here and still have some to give. I look at the ways that "God has blessed me" on this earth and I begin to recognize, as I read and try to take time to become closer to Jesus, that I was counting blessings that weren't blessings at all...
What I was counting as blessings were actually becoming detriments to me and the cause that God has laid on my heart... more on this later this afternoon.
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