The Center of the Universe…
As I sit here on my computer, I cannot help but think about what the future holds for me. The thought of becoming a father for the first time this coming January is still something I cannot wrap my mind around. It all seems so surreal. My life will change in a new way, and suddenly the focus, the attention will all be on our new baby boy, and rightly so. Suddenly this tiny life becomes the center of my attention. That means that sometimes my own wants and desires need to take a back seat. The thought of it makes me realize just how selfish I can be at times.
If I am brutally honest with myself, who/what does my world revolve around? What is at the center of my universe? If I look at how I spend my time, why I act the way I do, so often my motivations are misplaced and based on my own self interest.
The Westminster Catechism says that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But I have heard someone describe it in a different way, that we enjoy God by glorifying Him. Think about it, how much frustration and anxiousness do I deal with because I so often place myself at the center of the universe? But God does not want to share His glory with anyone, because it is His and His alone. When I try to take that glory for myself and put myself at the center, no wonder why I am met with so much difficulty. That is not how God intended it to be. If I am at the center then I am pressed in and tied down by all the worries and concerns that life may throw at me. But if God is at the center then I am free. Free to live my life as God intended me to. Free to enjoy my creator by glorifying Him in all that I do. There is no greater freedom for us then in giving God the glory He so rightly deserves.
That is why heaven will be such an amazing place. When in the very presence of God how can we do anything but glorify Him for who He is? How could we ever place ourselves at the center when we are in the midst of His holy presence? Then we will truly be able to enjoy Him forever, because we are most satisfied when God is most glorified.
So then this begs the question, what is at the center of your universe…..
