my status bar of satisfaction
hey guys,
Currently, I am sitting in a Best Western in Oregon. We have one more day until we enter California. I am shocked that school is starting soon. i have been sitting here thinking about all of you back home. I know it sounds lame as I just left but I can't stop thinking about my greatest friends. I wanted to post something that has taken up my thinking recently. After discussions with friends and personal reflection I have been thinking about a sort of status bar of satisfaction. I picture my life as a large bar. The bar is endless and stretches forever. In my life, i add things on this bar. It seems that God is at the highest point of the bar, but is still in view. It seems as I add more things to the bar, it tends to clutter at the bottom, space out, and make itself closer to where I have put God. My point is, the more things I add, the more i get them closer to Christ. It seems to me that this is incredibly selfish and man-centered. As I add more to the bar, God's spot should go up higher. The more I pack on, the higher He needs to be. We tend to think that our life is a puzzle and all the pieces fit together. Love, money, honor, God/faith, and so on, but I want to challenge your thinking to not view it as a puzzle but as a bar. When you put puzzle pieces together they are supposed to be even and fit. God shouldn't fit in the puzzle! Our wordly posessions shouldn't fit to Him either. I believe that God needs to be at the highest point of the bar where nothing can compare to Him! We climb past the distraction and objects so that we can obtain what He is. We can never reach Him but at least our hand is stretched as close as possible. Maybe if that image doesn't work, why even add to the bar when nothing can reach Him. I am finding that I cannot add to God. I will never have the perfect picture.. God and the wife. God and the band. God and the drumset. God and the computer. It needs to be GOD. God needs nothing else, demands nothing else, and is satisfied with Himself. This has challenged my thinking and I hope yours. Take a second to ask yourself, how high is God is my life. Maybe a better question would be, has he been so close to the bottom of the bar that He tends to bleed into my earthly posessions?
-dave
Currently, I am sitting in a Best Western in Oregon. We have one more day until we enter California. I am shocked that school is starting soon. i have been sitting here thinking about all of you back home. I know it sounds lame as I just left but I can't stop thinking about my greatest friends. I wanted to post something that has taken up my thinking recently. After discussions with friends and personal reflection I have been thinking about a sort of status bar of satisfaction. I picture my life as a large bar. The bar is endless and stretches forever. In my life, i add things on this bar. It seems that God is at the highest point of the bar, but is still in view. It seems as I add more things to the bar, it tends to clutter at the bottom, space out, and make itself closer to where I have put God. My point is, the more things I add, the more i get them closer to Christ. It seems to me that this is incredibly selfish and man-centered. As I add more to the bar, God's spot should go up higher. The more I pack on, the higher He needs to be. We tend to think that our life is a puzzle and all the pieces fit together. Love, money, honor, God/faith, and so on, but I want to challenge your thinking to not view it as a puzzle but as a bar. When you put puzzle pieces together they are supposed to be even and fit. God shouldn't fit in the puzzle! Our wordly posessions shouldn't fit to Him either. I believe that God needs to be at the highest point of the bar where nothing can compare to Him! We climb past the distraction and objects so that we can obtain what He is. We can never reach Him but at least our hand is stretched as close as possible. Maybe if that image doesn't work, why even add to the bar when nothing can reach Him. I am finding that I cannot add to God. I will never have the perfect picture.. God and the wife. God and the band. God and the drumset. God and the computer. It needs to be GOD. God needs nothing else, demands nothing else, and is satisfied with Himself. This has challenged my thinking and I hope yours. Take a second to ask yourself, how high is God is my life. Maybe a better question would be, has he been so close to the bottom of the bar that He tends to bleed into my earthly posessions?
-dave
4 Comments:
Wow, brutha... that's good stuff. I never had that kind of analogy in my head before... Way to go... now I do... thanks a lot... (jk) :)
No seriously, dude, I miss you too. And I have actually been convicted of the same things. As we grow up (and maybe even go to college [where there's the best chocolate milk in the land]) we start to think of the new responsibilities that we'll have like college or marriage or music or careers... And, I know for me, I tend to put God on the low end of the bar. ...
Thanks for the post, Dave.
Love you brother.
My brother, It is good to hear that from you. I pray that you keep that perspective all the way through this next school year. So many things will be fighting for your satisfaction, but remember: Solus Christus.
See you soon!
Dave, that's awesome. I read your post earlier, but hadn't commented til now. This am, SKH was saying how the natural man places himself as top priority, then others, then God. (Contrasted to a believer, who should have it the other way around.) Such a good point of application... where is God in my priorities? And I go back to your blog, and you have the same idea illustrated for us to see. Thanks. Enjoy college and the chocolate milk. :)
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Have a good day.
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