“What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated, because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes.” (My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers)
This morning, I heard about a young person who is trying to get a certain number of twitter followers in the next month. To me, this seems to be such an inane objective. Most of us have personal goals that we have set for today, for this week, for the next month, and for our lifetime. We even have ambitions for our children’s future. We may consider our plans to be worthwhile. Yet, at the most, our goals may impact a few generations.
God’s perspective is eternal. His purposes are centered on relationship. When our intentions are to draw closer to God, to grow in trust, to have a deeper, more intimate connection with Him--then, our goals have significance. Anything less is inane and purposeless.
Perhaps this young person's Twitter Goal is a personal message from God to build self-worth. Completing a goal of Twitter Followers will boost the self-esteem putting them on the path of "if you can do this, you can do anything you set your mind to because you tried instead of telling yourself you can't before you even try."
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