Recently I reflected on who people become along the path of life. Painful moments can define their story. Blown opportunities, or ones taken that should have been avoided can seep into the soul of a person and become who they are. How tragic to live for decades and have those decades decide who you are! How sad to have a moment or an event that happened to you or that you caused be the only reality of your life!
I want to make a different choice, a choice that scales beyond my life circumstances and events, my failures and my faults. I don’t want to become the accumulation of my years so that where I have been and what has happened to me defines who I am. I pray that the power shaping my life is the cross, that who I am is more about what He has done than what I have done. I pray that as I age (and I am doing that quickly), my life looks more like one who is loved by the Lord than one who has been rejected by someone else. I pray that my life will resemble His heart of joy rather than a heart full of anguish. His cross can be the shaping element far more powerful than anyone’s hurt. His cross can be the shaping element far more powerful than my own sin. His cross, the shaping element of my life! Care to join me?
Amen.