Dave’s Monday Blast – November 5, 2018
This life is marked by a single choice: who or what will we center our lives around? “The end of the matter, after all has been heard, is to fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). This INTENTIONAL choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, what we feel, who or what we value, and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days.
Craig Denison, blogger and author of the daily devotional First 15 comments: “To center our lives around ourselves or the things of this world leads only to destruction. But, to center our lives around meeting with God fills each moment with the glorious abundance of God’s love, provision, and transcendent peace.”
What would our lives look like if we truly centered our time, energy, emotions, and pursuits around meeting with God? Denison comments: “All of us choose to center our lives around something or someone. Every decision is made through the filter of what we most value. For some of us, we center our lives around ourselves. For others, we center our lives around the opinions of others. Still others choose to center life around a notion or concept, believing it to be of highest value.”
Of course my prayer for each of you is that you would center your lives here on earth around meeting daily with the Creator because He is absolutely the most worthy recipient of our highest value.
To center our lives around meeting with God is to place value on the absolute best thing. Psalm 84:10-12 says, “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!” When we place our trust and value in God, we position ourselves to live in perfect communion with the Father who loves us. Our God longs to meet with us. (I find this to be a staggering thought). He longs for us to taste and see His goodness. It’s only in living for communion with our Creator above all else that we will experience the incredible, abundant life God longs to give us.
Who or what have you INTENTIONALLY placed at the center of your life today?
