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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Are you satisfied with only God?

I have been asking myself this question for some time now.  Not only with earthly relationships but with everything in general.  Am I really satisfied with only God?  I have to honestly say that I am scared to have only God because I have not known that part of my life for very long.  I'm being honest right?  What about you?  Are you scared for it to only be you and God?  Can you give you your life of comfortablility if He asked you to? 

Many people shy away from this question because they don't want to give up what they know.  Well, if God is asking you to give up everything, then you better do it.  This does not mean that God asks everyone to give up all of their belongings, friendships, family, life all the time.  I mean, He has the authority to do so but that does not mean that is right for you.  He could ask me tomorrow to sell or give away all of my possessions and live in a cardboard box.  This is when I ask myself, am I able to do this?  I will admit that this is a scary thought and I do selfishly still want to hang on to a few things because it's what I know.  But, this past week I started looking at what I own in my tiny apartment and realized that most of my stuff, I never use.  Then why do I have it?  I am not saying any of this to put myself on a pedestal.  I do, however, want you to think about why you have what you have?  I went through my items, and got rid of what I don't use or what I have not used in a while and packed up all of it.  I logically asked myself, "Am I keeping this because it glorifies God?"  There are a few things I kept because as an educator (or future educator) I am going to need some things to teach my kids.  There are also things I kept that if people came over that they would feel comfortable and I can show them who God is.  Other than those two reasons, I pretty much got rid of what I didn't need.  It's a tough thing to do but let me tell you, it is so liberating.  So, my question is are you completely satisfied with only God?

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