Goals

I have set many goals in my life. When I turned 60 last year, I started reassessing how I was doing in reaching some of those goals. Along the way of life, I have set short term goals (90 Days). I have set some one year goals and then goals that were five years. I also have even more long-term goals.  Someone once said, if you have no goals, you’ll hit them every time. As a Christ-follower, He is always leading in my goals. I want what He wants for my life. I’ve surrendered my wants and wishes to His will for me.

As I started reading in chapter three of Colossians this morning, I was stopped in my tracks. This is where goal setting begins. Check this out….

¹Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. ² Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. ³ For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.

Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. (Colossians 3:1-4,11b NLT)

This life is preparing me for the next life.

This is the land of the dying, but I’m going to the land of the living.

I want to hold loosely to the things of this earth and hold tightly to the things of heaven.

While I’m still living here on planet earth, it’s ok to set goals and work at achieving them. I must be careful to keep my eyes on the life-long goal of living for Him. I don’t want to become so heavenly bound that I’m no earthly good to others. I can be in this world without be of this world.

My sights are clearly set on heaven as my home. I do want others to know the Hope that I have and my reason for keeping my eyes on Jesus. He gives me wisdom, counsel, and guidance here in this life (aka land of the dying), while walking with me into the land of the living.

Pressing On!

Dwayne