Greater Purpose

Dear Friends,
Have you ever felt like a slow learner? I know I sure have... really slow. Yet each lesson, each milestone, every failure learned from is one more step toward the goal.
Well, one lesson that it seems I've never quite learned (and who knows... maybe I will never learn it fully until I'm Home) is that life isn't about me.
Things have happened in my life and situations were thrown upon me where I was forced to embrace the fact that nothing is about me... often, if not always it was a mistake of mine that God showed me, (or it was very clear) and it humbled me so much I could only say... "I can't do this on my own... I need You!"
Yet time after time that humbleness would fade and I would once again think I'm something of worth... that ME was someone to be respected and loved... that I was the reason that my life had changed so much for the better.
And yet... it's not about me at all.
Without Christ I am nothing... I am worthless without Him...without Him my life is a complete wreak, and if He hadn't died on that cross I would have no hope.

Here are some of the lyrics from a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that fit this post well-- (this is an amazing song by the way)

--Much of You--

How could I stand here
And watch the sun rise
Follow the mountains
Where they touch the sky
Ponder the vastness
And the depths of the sea
And think for a moment
The point of it all was to make much of me
Cause I'm just a whisper
And You are the thunder and

I want to make much of You, Jesus
I want to make much of Your love
I want to live today to give You the praise
That You alone are so worthy of
I want to make much of Your mercy
I want to make much of Your cross
I give You my life
Take it and let it be used
To make much of You

And how can I kneel here
And think of the cross
The thorns and the whip and the nails and the spear
The infinite cost
To purchase my pardon
And bear all my shame
To think I have anything worth boasting in except for Your name
Cause I am a sinner
And You are the Savior

I want to make much of You, Jesus...

So life is not about ME... not about my wants... my dreams... my hopes... it's about something so much greater.

It's about my life being an empty vessel... about brokenness, and in that brokenness running to the arms of the Saviour... it's about losing my identity and finding it in Christ.. it's about letting go of what I want and following God's plan for my life... and ultimately it is about Jesus Christ; about bringing Him glory and living lives that are blameless, and shining bright unto the world.

I hope that this has encouraged, and inspired you some... it's definitely been a journey God has been taking me on in the last couple of days.... :)

Stay strong in Christ--