There is a Christian song out that I don't know the title to, but that has effected me deeply. There is one line of it that is "haunting" me. That one line is:
What if I had given everything instead of going through the motions?
Most of the time I only give a part of myself. Even if I am giving 99% that is not all and I wouldn't dare to say that I have ever given that. So what would my life be like if I would give everything and stop just going through the motions?
In addition to that the youth pastor spoke at our church this morning and asked two hard questions he had read about a rabbi being asked. They were:
Who are you and what are you doing here?
Seem simple, but they are not.
Who am I? It is easy to define who we are by what we do, how others view us, what others want us to think we are. But the real answer can only be found in asking ourselves a question first. Who does God say I am and do I believe Him? If we answer the question from any other place, it is a lie.
What am I doing here?
He made a point that it is not why I am here. We as westerners try too often to logically figure things out. We will never figure out God. If we could, He would cease to be God because we would be higher than He. Who would want a God who is weaker than oneself? But the question beckons more of an answer as to how we are living where we find ourselves now. Not looking back wanting to go to a better place we once knew. Not looking forward, wanting to get out of the place we are currently. But standing still and doing what God wants us to be doing now.
So I ask myself, and I ask you these questions.
What if we gave everything instead of going through the motions?
Who are we?
What are we doing here?
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