Exploring the struggles & joys of following God

In life, many things grab our attention and point to what should matter to us the most or take priority in our life. But as a Christian, there’s only one thing that truly matters: to know that God is good. Our view of God is pivotal because it dictates the direction of our life.

When we think of hope, we think of a wishful state. You may hope it doesn’t rain today. Or you hope to see your friend later. But Biblical hope is so much more than that. It’s something you put your entire life into. Which sure isn’t the wishy-washy meaning we think of today.

It’s easy to forget that in life, we are all growing something within our lives. It’s either for God or something else. And anything other than God will tangle its roots around the seed God planted in your life, choking it out. What we invest our life into will produce either a closer relationship with God or not. There is no inbetween.

When we wait for God to be good, we can be confident that He will always come through. Because that’s within His very character, which never changes. It’s only when we try to define what ‘good’ means that we fail to see His goodness. God asks us to be still. To wait. To hope in His goodness. Not in the goodness we try to make. But His.

Let’s all face it, we all find our identity in something. And if you believe in God, it’s not necessarily in Him. Depending on how you view God, your identity could be in a number of other things. Do you believe God to be fully loving and good? What about all powerful? How you attribute each of these characters shapes what your relationship with Him looks like. And as His creation, who you are.

We all love something so much, it takes precedence over all else. Whether we think about it or not, we let that love influence every decision we make and it becomes what motivates us in how we live our life. It’s critical to take a step back and see what motivates us to do the things we do in our life.

We like to think of living a life devoted to God as “super Christian” sometimes. But the act of dying to ourselves and living to God is a crucial, foundational aspect of our relationship with Him. If we don’t live for Him, we live for others or ourselves. And we can trust that He will give us everything we need.