What are the markers of your journey?

In recent weeks many aspects of life in our family have been challenged through sickness and death. This confrontation has been real in relation to the research project in my life that is focusing on some of the issues children today are facing unlike two generations previously and the ministry impact that results from this new reality. In the end the thing that matters most is how we live the life we have been given. Each of us no matter the family, ethnic, or economic background of our journey have a choice of how we live and from what mind-set drives our decisions and lifestyle. I am thankful to have the opportunity to live in a free society as a Christian and honestly not be dependent on legislation or political affiliations to sustain my life. In the end what matters most is how we counted the cost in the day-to-day, year-to-year ebb and flow of life. Did I love? Did I share Christ? Did people really know me? As I have been confronted with questions of what really matters it has been a reality check that the tic marks on my journey’s timeline are being formed by how I live each day.

My prayer today is that I will realize what 2 Timothy 3 states “in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lover of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.” 2 Timothy 3: 1-5, NASB

Father my heart desire is to not be one of these men that is referenced in this letter to Timothy. As we continue in an election year and experience a need for God to move among His people in America could it be more beneficial to be counted as a person to not be avoided but one that people desire to be associated with in their life.