C.S. Lewis “If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Some call it midlife crisis…you know…the idea that when people hit their mid thirties they begin to feel as if they haven’t lived or made an impact. They begin to question themselves in relation to this world. As a result, they begin to change the external things about themselves attempting to meet the inner thirst for significance.
Ecclesiastes 7:4 NLT “A wise person thinks much about death, while the fool thinks only about having a good time now.”
I don’t think we actually dwell on death, but the eternal should be the standard for our actions, not the temporal.
Have you secured your hope in Christ?
Are you doing those things that will carry an eternal significance?
Are you still alive? Then you still have a purpose!
I talked to a friend the other day and we shared our struggle with the “American Dream.” It’s not that I fear education, career, achievement, or the corporate ladder. What I fear is that when the day is done, I haven’t advanced in what Ron Woods titled in a sermon, “The Gospel Dream.”
I challenge you this week to do those things that are outside of routine and rhythm. Do something amazing…something that is made for another world!
Chance
#1 by Pablo - February 12th, 2010 at 15:13
Is it possible to feel this way at my age (24). I have always had a desire to do better than what I’m doing now. These feelings I think are based in what I was taught as a child. I have tried over the past few years to enact the same type of method to my christian walk. I need to get closer to what my gospel dream is. Hopefully sooner than later.
#2 by Chance - February 15th, 2010 at 09:43
I think what is more important is the fact that you have identified this feeling at the age of 24. It takes many of us too long to realize we have done too little. It gets back to the sermon Ron Woods gave on too many fat consumers in the church and not enough producers (my paraphrase). Do something today that will make you a producer or at least the middle man who exchanges God’s love for the brokenness of humanity.