What Impact will you choose to Make?

What impact will you make?

What moves us to proceed in our development? What moves us to be better people? What gives us love to share? If we don’t have God!

It would be extremely pretentious of me to believe that the only good people to live and breath on this earth are Christians.  People throughout history have sought enlightenment in their search for God. The uses of meditation, in the doing of good deeds, in the preservation of nature, in the passions of creativity, individuals and nations have sought advancement. There are those that have left a mark on this world for it’s good, in the sharing of their lives others have felt love. It’s been said to share God and who He really is we should love at least one person unreservedly, unconditionally, and completely unselfishly.  As Christians following that pattern we may have greater impact in this world but often we fail in the dispensing of forgiveness and love choosing rather to harbor, hurts and disappointment.  

As Christians we believe there is only one way to God and eternal life and that’s Jesus. We have a reason to meditate, to use our passions to create.  In the demonstration of pure worship a realm of God’s kingdom, now, on this earth, can create an atmospheres that produces that enlightenment that many seek. Yet we would rather what? Well you can fill in that blank, what is it that removes you from the worship that should be so freely given which could touch heaven and change earth?

There have been some that spend the first part of their lives following their path with God, with passion and insight, hearing God’s voice, seeing His love and sharing it, but seem to proceed in choosing a wrong route, departing to seek their flesh instead of their God. Others have lived their lives with self-interest and encounter God and their whole direction is transformed and their influence is dynamic. When those choices made affect others either in a negative or positive manner lives are impacted.

Thinking of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, she had a simple yet insightful meeting with Jesus, which had such a profound, affect that it transformed not just her life but also the lives of her whole village and generations of hearers of her story. The contrasting story found in Luke 48 when Jesus asked, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" Judas had spent years with Jesus, knew him deeply. Yet chose money over relationship.

I believe we are all capable of either being the Samaritan woman or Judas. Is there a special formula, a secret power that enables us to make the right choice? In my experience, I have seen some I would have bet my life would run the race with power till the end but stumbled instead, while others struggling in the beginning become strong, generous and Christ like in their walk. I believe seeking independence and isolation, and fearing judgment instead of allowing our faults, mistakes, and shortcomings to show, we have a tendency for failure.  While knowing our weakness and limitations without God’s power and grace allows and creates a need to seek God continually and understanding our complete dependence on Him produces victory.  

My question for others and myself is what motivates, inspires, stimulates, provokes and causes us to live the lives we live?  What legacy do we want to leave? Do we want it to be for just our time on earth or do we want to create an eternal impact?

I am who I am because of God’s love and forgiveness and I desire to live my life in worship…