I was home in Shalimar, FL for the Thanksgiving holiday and after the obligatory Turkey Trot my dad and I went to Sam’s Club to pick up my anti-malaria medication. Conversations with my dad are always noteworthy because they usually involve some kind of random, off the wall comment that makes me laugh and leaves him confused as to why I am laughing. This conversation was no different:
Pops: ” So, Chark before you start taking life seriously we need to take a biking/ hiking/ mountaineering trip together.”
Me: “Get your trucking license and we can haul stuff across the country.”
It’s funny to me because, as I examine his statement more closely I realize that I could easily be offended by this statement. I see myself as a responsible enough individual….I am financially independent, I have a degree, job, apartment, car, and plan for my life. Well a plan for the next 11 months anyways…
I guess it is time for me to take life seriously.
Just in a different way than he expects.
I will be serious about raising support.
I will be serious about spreading the gospel to unreached people.
I will be serious about living a sold out life for Christ.
I will be serious about dying to myself and let God move through me, in the ways He has planned.
I will be serious about appreciating the simple things that I have been given.
I will be serious about not only talking the talk, but walking the walk.
I will be serious about my prayer life.
I will understand, seriously understand that God has given me a sound mind.
I will be serious about understanding that God’s grace has no bounds. His love is never ending and ever lasting.
I will be serious in knowing that the treasures I have here on Earth will fade and having full faith that my treasures are in HEAVEN.
I will be serious that in my doubts I will turn to him with reckless abandon and know He is with me.
Now of course I didn’t come back with this when my dad said this to me, I always think of the the good comebacks after the fact.
“I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.”
Jeremiah 10:23
Pops & I on the ferry boat in Bermuda.
