“The greatest thing in all my life is loving You” . . . 

Those were the words to a song we sang in church on Sunday. 

LIES. 

Wait a minute, don’t get me wrong. It should be the greatest thing, and it probably is the greatest thing, but I don’t live like I believe it. I live like I believe my friendships are the greatest thing. Or choir rehearsal. Or Disney. Or the Texas Rangers. . . but not loving Jesus. 

Why is that so hard? Or is it not hard for anyone else and I just threw myself under the gauntlet of judgment? Well. It’s hard for me. Not deep down, because I do, but in the everyday, in and out of life, it’s hard. Mark Driscoll has said that good things become bad things when they’re the ultimate thing. . . Or, things that we’re meant to enjoy (like friendships and music and baseball) can become bad things if they’re the only thing we value and chase after. Not bad like wrong, but bad like there is something so.much.better. Something so much more satisfying. So much more fulfilling. 

I don’t know where you are in your life, but I’m certainly at the place where I have to be reminded that in the day in and day out of life, there is something so.much.better. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. . .in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight. . .In him we have obtained an inheritance. Ephesians 1:3-4, 7-8, 11