Obsessed with Christ.....

Give me one pure and holy passion..... One soul satisfying, glorious ambition.... one magnificent obsession.... to know and fall in love with and expend my life for the King of Glory. Shells.... I don't want to waste my life on small obsessions or small dreams or small goals or small hopes or small aspirations or small impact. It is my passion to live in the midst of a group of people who expend their lives in a way that reflects the magnitude of their God.

Jesus said, 'I am the vine, the true.' He tells a group of men who surround him that they can pour out their lives for Him. He tells them that they can live for what is true. As I thought about Jesus' words in John 15.1, I love that He is the True. A life invested in Him is true. As I read, I was stopped in my tracks one evening. If Jesus is 'the true' and I must be attached to the true, then there is also an antithesis. There is also the 'false' and I run the risk of obsessing over 'the false'. I become obsessed so easily by...... some habit or purchase or thing or job or hobby or something with my body or with money or.... well, the 'or's' of my obsessions are unlimited. Even more, when I slide into an obsession with 'the false' it is a waste! I run the risk of wasting time, money, purpose, passion, and life. Perhaps, far more detrimental, I run the risk of losing the opportunity to spend my life for God's ultimate glory.

I long to spend my life for His glory! One obsession..... One.... to glory, revel, and find my truest self in Jesus Christ. Who are you obsessed with?

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By Grace... For Glory,

Mark