Most Important Day
What is the most important day of your life?
I think there are lots of important days. I've got some defining moments and milestones and Ebenezers. The day I put my faith in Christ as a five year-old after watching The Hiding Place. The day I won the 200 meter dash in 2nd grade. The day I made the front page of the Naperville Sun as a 7th grader. The day I was the commencement speaker at my college graduation. The day I got married. The day each child was born. The day I became pastor of National Community Church.
Those are significant days. They have relational, spiritual and emotional significance.
Here's a thought.
The most important day of your life isn't the day you're born. It's the day you discover why!
I think that is a process that never ends, but there are moments when something clicks or you feel the stars align or there is a convergence--this is why I was put on this planet.
I remember one of those moments in a Sunday school class. I had never verbalized these words in quite this way. "My mission is to help people reach their God-given potential." I've said it in different ways at different times, but that is at the heart of who I am. The prayer I pray more than any other prayer at this point is, "Help me help people."
I see life through that filter. Sin is wasting God-given potential. Stewardship is doing the best we can with what we have where we are. I love the way John Maxwell says it. "Potential is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God."
Most people just exist because they've never discovered why they were put on this planet.
You start dying when you have nothing worth living for. You start living when you have something worth dying for.
I think there are lots of important days. I've got some defining moments and milestones and Ebenezers. The day I put my faith in Christ as a five year-old after watching The Hiding Place. The day I won the 200 meter dash in 2nd grade. The day I made the front page of the Naperville Sun as a 7th grader. The day I was the commencement speaker at my college graduation. The day I got married. The day each child was born. The day I became pastor of National Community Church.
Those are significant days. They have relational, spiritual and emotional significance.
Here's a thought.
The most important day of your life isn't the day you're born. It's the day you discover why!
I think that is a process that never ends, but there are moments when something clicks or you feel the stars align or there is a convergence--this is why I was put on this planet.
I remember one of those moments in a Sunday school class. I had never verbalized these words in quite this way. "My mission is to help people reach their God-given potential." I've said it in different ways at different times, but that is at the heart of who I am. The prayer I pray more than any other prayer at this point is, "Help me help people."
I see life through that filter. Sin is wasting God-given potential. Stewardship is doing the best we can with what we have where we are. I love the way John Maxwell says it. "Potential is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God."
Most people just exist because they've never discovered why they were put on this planet.
You start dying when you have nothing worth living for. You start living when you have something worth dying for.
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