That's My King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE

This was a video shown at church that I found especially powerful. It's so easy to lose sight of the big picture, which I have to admit that I have been guilty of lately. I know my relationship with Christ isn't always a feel-good, emotionally charged experience where you feel close to Him all the time. I defintely don't feel that right now. But I realize that a God-centered life isn't about how you feel, it's a choice. I choose Him, even when I don't feel like living it, when I think He doesn't care, when I think I am too busy. He chose me, he died for me. My life only exists to bring Him glory. It doesn't matter what I accomplish, in the end, it honestly doesn't matter. I just have to remember the bigger picture and not let what I feel at the moment sway me. Thank God for his mercy and bringing great people into my life to point these truths out.

It's a lot easier to build our lives around the pursuit of wordly applause and selfish pleasure and just fit Christ in somewhere on the side than to radically pour out our lives in sacrificial devotion to Him. Amy Carmichael says it best "What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts."