This past Sunday Ross Wright, music director for Atlee's Mechanicsville campus, explored what it would look like to have Jesus as the center of our dreams and goals. If you missed it, you want to watch his message. Here's some encouragement from him to keep Jesus as your center point:
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. (Psalm 37:4)
I used to think this verse was a sign that all my dreams
would come true. Well, they haven’t. Have yours?
In Psalm 37, when David says “heart’s desires,” he isn’t
talking about the things we think we want. He’s talking about the thing we
might not even know we need.
We all have dreams and goals, and living them out provides
some level of satisfaction. But no external dream or goal can provide a lasting
life of fulfillment. Not money or relationships or career or fame or
accomplishment can truly satisfy our soul. The emptiness inside of us we try
to fill with those things goes much deeper than we sometimes realize.
In John chapter 4, Jesus encounters a woman drawing water
from a well. It’s in their conversation that we learn of a soul satisfaction
(living water) Jesus offers that cannot be attained elsewhere.
The gift God has for us, the living water of his word and
ways, transforms us into a wellspring of life. His living water satisfies the
way nothing else – even our biggest dream coming true – can.
Through Jesus we are
gifted our heart’s true desire.
In Jesus… we live.
There is so much freedom in Christ to live your dreams and
accomplish your goals, but keeping Christ at the center means you might need to
start thinking in reverse.
Instead of living for a moment that hasn’t happened yet… for
a status you haven’t reached… for the thing that might one day make you happy…
You can live for the One who’s already satisfied your soul.
And whatever you do or say, do it as a
representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. (Colossians 3:17)
- Ross
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