What's Your Perspective?

Marcus spoke this morning in chapel. It was good. Some things he said got me thinking about some things I'm walking through right now.

When you look at your life and the direction it is presently heading, how do you see it? When you think about how you are doing, how do you judge it? There are really only two perspectives about the progress you are making in life..."Man, I really have come a long way since then" or "I really have a long way to go before I get there".

Which do you say? Where are you?

I'm both. I struggle with both. I do well with both. If I had to nail it down though the one I struggle with most is "I really have a long way to go before I get there". No matter how good things are going I tend to see how much further I have to go than how far I have come. This can be good in that it motivates you to continue on and climb higher...this can be bad in that the pain of growth can seem to be too great to be worth going on.

Growth is painful. Stretching hurts. If one tries to say that growth is painless they're either not growing or they are trying to convince everyone that they don't feel pain.

I try to never get too high but sometimes I run the risk of never getting high enough to get above the low. What does God want? He wants me to celebrate my progress humbly. But how sad is it if I am never able to celebrate what God has done in me, through me, with me? How sad is it to Him as a father?

So today I celebrate. I think I'll start here...once I was lost but know I am found...10 years ago I was single, not a father, not in ministry, getting paid 2/3 less than now, struggling with tithing, broken heart from a bad relationship, had little in the well to preach with...we've come a long way in 10 years...imagine 10 years from now!

That's perspective. I am amazed by you Lord.