I was speaking to my mom an hour or so ago and she has been wrestling with her approach to her walk with God. If you are unfamiliar with the phrase “one’s walk with God” it basically is another way of saying your relationship with God.
We were talking about many changes going on in my life (work, friends, finances, etc) and she mentioned a very important outlook on her life that I wanted to relay to anyone who may stumble upon this blog.
She was driving and read a bumper sticker that read “If you kept only the things you cared about today tomorrow, what would you be left with?”
I think it would just be me! I think about how everything will affect me. Unfortunately I think about how everything relays to me. Work, finances, friends, exercise, etc. No, not all the time but it is a driving force in my life. That makes me sad.
Last night my friends and I were watching the movie “Hitch” The movie doesn’t matter but the cinematography and emotions played out in it do. What do we as viewers look for in respectable, real and likable characters in movies? Humility, compassion, love and selflessness. We flock to them in the movies and we flock to them in life. If someone made a movie about me, and could read my mind or thoughts during the movie, I would slowly be a nobody and dislikes throughout the movie and possibly the antagonist to the hero in the movie because I would be the selfish character.
I have been contemplating what has been most important in my life, similar to my mom, and my movie character needs to change. I need to change. It will take pain (the best plots have the hero go through pain) but they are always liked the most. Now I know I just said that other’s opinions shouldn’t matter and they don’t in the grand scheme of God’s plan but other’s relationship with you that,based on trust and loyalty and honor, does matter to God. Those are not synonymous with other’s liking you but they are good symptoms of it.
So what is truly important to you?
