In my experience from this short time on Earth, I've been taught 2 truths: 1) Two things in life are for sure: death and taxes. and 2) You are what you make out of life. Recently, I've been truly challenged by the latter. Growing up, I never really had a break from school. I graduated college 2 1/2 weeks before I moved to Tennessee only to go straight to school 2 weeks later. Then, I was offered a job before I graduated from THAT school, so about 3 weeks after I moved back home I started work. No breaks. This I have recognized as a blessing...yet have to remind myself that it IS a blessing on occasion. So, as far a jobs and schools, I have had little to no complaints.
Yes, life happens one way or another, but I also know that as a Christian, life is viewed as the process by which we must work to win souls for the Lord. Nowhere in this process are we to put ANY emphasis on our own glory. That belongs to God and God alone. Now, there are different ways we as humans can handle this process. We can view it as a blessing to serve our Heavenly Father, or grumble at the fact that we can't take the credit ourselves (even though we deserve NO credit whatsoever), or we can totally dismiss the fact that we have done nothing to receive this credit, yet take it anyway. At the end of everyone's life, we are to be counted and judged by our Creator. This, I believe, is what we will be judged on more than anything else. Did we serve the Lord with a grateful heart?
TAKE CAUTION:
There are those in this world who claim to follow Christ, yet take all the glory for themselves. If we as Christians will stay committed to the Gospel, then we can pick out these phonies and take their teachings with a grain of salt. I think the devil smiles bigger when he sees us following false profits than he does when we act in any other sin. I'm sure we have ALL fallen short in this category...but if we can take a deeper look into what we are taught, maybe we will be able to recognize and weed out truth from self-glorifying snakes. This is a challenge to myself as well as everyone else.
Glory be to God!
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