I want to be famous.
The question posed, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
and they answered...
"I want to be..."
...a famous singer.
...a famous artist.
... a famous fashion designer.
... a famous baseball player.
They all wanted to be famous. They wanted to be known, important. Their child-like boldness proclaiming desire untainted by disappointments and realities. Their dream to be famous allowing a window into their hearts. Maybe even into our own.
My inner cynic came out(I mean, everyone can't be a famous baseball player) as I watched their interactions until I realized their desire to be famous is really at the heart of all of us-it's the desire to be known. To do something that matters, to be apart of something bigger than ourselves.
Because really when it comes down to it, isn't that your desire?
You want to be known so you throw yourself into work, school, relationships, sports, music, fashion, exercise, etc. Anything that will satisfy this desire to be known, to identify with something and when it fails we run fast, hard to the next thing hoping this will bring fulfillment. Our hearts are thirsting.
Jeremiah 2:13
"for my people have committed two evils:they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
Jeremiah 2:32b-33a "Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. How well you direct your course to seek love!"
Mmm, I remember the prick of my heart as I read those words the first time. How well I've directed my course to seek love from others approval, academics, teaching, athletics, performance, etc..
How well we direct our courses after the things that we think will fulfill us, and then find in the end we've hewed out broken cisterns when we could have had living water! Jesus says "if anyone thirsts,let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" Let your thirst to be known lead you to the One who is the Living Water. You not only get to be fully known but get to be a part of His eternal Kingdom. His child.
What, Where are you finding worth today?
and they answered...
"I want to be..."
...a famous singer.
...a famous artist.
... a famous fashion designer.
... a famous baseball player.
They all wanted to be famous. They wanted to be known, important. Their child-like boldness proclaiming desire untainted by disappointments and realities. Their dream to be famous allowing a window into their hearts. Maybe even into our own.
My inner cynic came out(I mean, everyone can't be a famous baseball player) as I watched their interactions until I realized their desire to be famous is really at the heart of all of us-it's the desire to be known. To do something that matters, to be apart of something bigger than ourselves.
Because really when it comes down to it, isn't that your desire?
You want to be known so you throw yourself into work, school, relationships, sports, music, fashion, exercise, etc. Anything that will satisfy this desire to be known, to identify with something and when it fails we run fast, hard to the next thing hoping this will bring fulfillment. Our hearts are thirsting.
Jeremiah 2:13
"for my people have committed two evils:they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
Jeremiah 2:32b-33a "Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. How well you direct your course to seek love!"
Mmm, I remember the prick of my heart as I read those words the first time. How well I've directed my course to seek love from others approval, academics, teaching, athletics, performance, etc..
How well we direct our courses after the things that we think will fulfill us, and then find in the end we've hewed out broken cisterns when we could have had living water! Jesus says "if anyone thirsts,let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" Let your thirst to be known lead you to the One who is the Living Water. You not only get to be fully known but get to be a part of His eternal Kingdom. His child.
What, Where are you finding worth today?
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