I haven’t blogged in a few weeks (sorry!) due to the fact that the entire month of October has been a month of God teaching me a lesson. A lesson about what I want vs what God wants for me, a lesson about worldly view vs Godly view, and a lesson about the human vs the spirit.
This world makes us believe that we should want certain things, like: relationships, popularity, and a good paying job. Though these are nice things, and because I myself am a human, I start believing that I want all of this too. I see my friends in their cute relationships and I start to think “I want a boyfriend to go on cute dates with”. Or I start to think that maybe if I went to more parties and wore more make up and less clothing that’d I’d become popular too. Or my favorite, thinking about the future and telling myself over and over again that I need to go to college for a major that will make me have a good paying job. But then when God steps in, thoughts change.
1. John 2:15-16: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, a love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” DANG. Okay, that’s kind of a nice wake up call. God doesn’t want us to conform to this world. He didn’t create us for that. He created us to be more than that. We as a Christian community sometimes forget that, at least I do. It’s nice to have a God who reminds me those important lessons, a God who cares about me enough to not let me lose track of what’s really important for my time here on earth.
Not saying God doesn’t want us to enjoy the things of the world, because He does want us too. He put us on this beautiful world to interact in it and be apart of it. He wants us to fall in love and go on cute dates, he wants us to be outgoing and have friends, and he definitely wants us to have a steady job so we’re not homeless. But most importantly, He just wants us to love Him. He wants us to see the bigger picture in life and to realize that, this isn’t it. This world is just a pit stop to an eternal life with our loving creator. But it’s also a place where we can bring more people to God by our actions. This world is where we can truly make an impact. We just can’t get blindsided by the things inside of it. But luckily, God’s always going to be there to bring us back when we stray too far.
