What are your goals in life? Do you have goals? Are you pursuing a specific goal right now? Have you set interim goals to work your way to your ultimate goal? Are you progressing toward your goal? Do you have a goal to be more like Jesus Christ?
Often our goals in life are of this world. We seek a partner to spend our life with. We work hard to get promoted in our jobs. We desire to live in a good neighborhood with good schools. We try to eat healthy and exercise. We do our best to raise our children to be good citizens.
All of those goals are good. But are we pursuing the best goal? The best goal we can pursue is to be like Jesus Christ and seek the prize of heaven. There are incremental steps we can pursue as we pursue the ultimate goal. To be like Christ, we can seek to clean up the life we live.
Cleaning up the life we live is not easy. In fact, it is impossible without completely turning our life over to Christ. We must relinquish our control and allow Him to take control. We may have heard songs that state this, yet words are cheap, easily stated, and much harder to put into action. We like to have control. Yet, our control is false, an illusion. In order to fully turn over our lives to Christ, we must remove our blinders and see that God is the only one in control.
As we have steppingstones toward an earthly goal, we need to set for ourselves steppingstones to become like Jesus. The first and most important one is to begin relinquishing control and submitting to God’s control. The next steppingstone is to open our eyes and see as God sees. Only by doing this will we see the lies of this world.
I pray we all pursue the goal of being more like Jesus. I pray we open our eyes to see the world as God sees it. I pray each one of us will begin relinquishing control by realizing God is in control. Set your goals. Seek to be more like Jesus. Open your eyes. See as God sees. Allow God to be in control of your life.
Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
Marty Pressey 