Front Page Sunday 17th September 2006
Ever really wonder what is really important? For most of us family, home, job, all fall into that category, and rightly so. Those things are important for our relationships, our security and for our well being. All are important for the relatively short time we here on this planet. The more successful we are, the more affluent we are determines the level of our existence and also determines in many ways how we can make difference in this world.
As I look at all of these things the thing that strikes me is that all these worldly standards, worldly measures of success and fulfilment are based on what you do and what you have, not who you are. I am reading Steve Waugh’s autobiography “Out of my comfort zone’ and what strikes me about this book, particularly in its early stages is the correlation between his success and his self worth. When he is making runs, taking wickets and being selected in teams of a higher level, he feels good about himself, conversely when he is having a bad trot, he is lacking self esteem and self worth. That worldly attitude so often spills over into our spiritual life when those things I mentioned earlier, family, home, job, success often determine how we feel about ourselves.
One thing the bible teaches is that our self worth is not based on what we do, rather on who we are, and who we are is determined for us by Jesus Christ as He came to redeem us and make it possible for us to have a personal loving relationship with the living God.
It’s the eternal that is of real importance, the temporary situations of this world only have real significance when they are seen in the overall scheme of things. That is, the most important thing is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, from that all other relationships are enhanced and enriched and take on a new and different dimension as we put God at the centre of our life. No longer is self worth based on performance or material wealth. God now sees you and I as people of great worth and of great significance. He wants the very best for each one of us. “ I have come so that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10)
To me that is what is really important
God bless
Blair
As I look at all of these things the thing that strikes me is that all these worldly standards, worldly measures of success and fulfilment are based on what you do and what you have, not who you are. I am reading Steve Waugh’s autobiography “Out of my comfort zone’ and what strikes me about this book, particularly in its early stages is the correlation between his success and his self worth. When he is making runs, taking wickets and being selected in teams of a higher level, he feels good about himself, conversely when he is having a bad trot, he is lacking self esteem and self worth. That worldly attitude so often spills over into our spiritual life when those things I mentioned earlier, family, home, job, success often determine how we feel about ourselves.
One thing the bible teaches is that our self worth is not based on what we do, rather on who we are, and who we are is determined for us by Jesus Christ as He came to redeem us and make it possible for us to have a personal loving relationship with the living God.
It’s the eternal that is of real importance, the temporary situations of this world only have real significance when they are seen in the overall scheme of things. That is, the most important thing is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, from that all other relationships are enhanced and enriched and take on a new and different dimension as we put God at the centre of our life. No longer is self worth based on performance or material wealth. God now sees you and I as people of great worth and of great significance. He wants the very best for each one of us. “ I have come so that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10)
To me that is what is really important
God bless
Blair
posted by Pastor's Pen at 4:58 PM
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