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GO HOME & What is he doing? What do they think I should do?
Why do we do that? Because we live in a world of
TELL GOD EVERYTHING
insecurities, comfort, and unfortunately, we all have a
knack for looking out for ourselves first and foremost.
Oswald Chambers, who wrote the As humans, we’re made in the image of God and yet
well-known devotional My Utmost we’re full of garbage. The Bible would call this garbage
for His Highest, once shared a story
“sin.” The good news is that God did something about
about a woman he met after it by having Christ die on the cross for all of the things
preaching one day. After a service that make us fall short of God’s glory and goodness.
that particularly struck this woman, Trusting in Jesus’ righteousness gives us the time and
she approached Chambers to say, “I the passion to dream big because we aren’t tied to
must tell you everything about this world anymore.
myself!” Chambers replied by asking
if she had ever told God everything If we were created by God and for God, then that
about herself. When she said she means there is something God has planned for you to
hadn’t, Chambers encouraged her to do in this life. Jeremiah 29:11 reads, “For I know the
do just that. He also said
that if she still felt she
wanted to tell him, she
could.

One hundred years later,
we could ask ourselves the same question
Chambers proposed to that woman. Have
you ever told God everything about
yourself? If no one in the world has ever
told you that the God of the Universe
wants to hear from you, I would be
honored to be the first. God wants to hear
from you! He wants to hear about the
things you’re passionate about and He
wants to hear about the things you just
can’t stand about the world. He wants to
hear about what you want to do with your
life, even though He already knows. More
than anything, God wants to be close to
you because He made you. Colossians 1:16 tells us,
“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for
earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a
dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were hope.’” This means that God has laid out work for all
created through him and for him.” of us who choose to follow Him. Those who are
Christians call this mission given by God a calling.
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GLORY & GARBAGE Calling is what God wants you to do or become. In his
book The Call, Os Guinness writes, “As modern people

You heard that right. God made you on purpose, for a we are all on a search for significance. We desire to
make a difference. We long to leave a legacy. We
purpose. We were made to be dreamers, but in
reality, we like to be comfortable. We settle into our yearn, as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, ‘to leave the
world a bit better.’ Our passion is to know that we are
nice little lives, don’t take too many risks, and hope
for the best. We do as closely to what we think the fulfilling the purpose for which we are here on
people around us would expect of us, not wanting to earth...Answering the call of our Creator is ‘the
rock too many boats or break too many social norms. ultimate why’ for living, the highest source of purpose
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We look to the people around us to give us answers in human existence.” We can trust that God’s plans
and dreams for our lives are better and more fulfilling
for how we should live our lives. What is she wearing?
than our own.