Your best life is not for you. What I mean is, your best life is not a life that is self-centered, but rather, Christ-centered. If we live life for ourselves alone, we will live life for ourselves...alone.
But God did not create us for isolation, he created us to be in relationship with him and with other people, and that naturally requires us to take our eyes off of ourselves.
Taking our eyes off of ourselves also means not placing our identity in ourselves. That sounds absurd, but left to our own understanding and perceptions, we do not value ourselves as much as God does. So we place our identity in Christ, who always speaks the truth about how valuable and loved we are.
It is a life lived in Christ and for Christ where we find our best life. Anything else is a lesser version of what we could be, but this requires us to realize that the universe does not revolve around us. When we begin to take our eyes off of ourselves, and place them on Christ and living for his kingdom, we will begin to experience the most fulfilling type of life we could imagine.
It was great to be with you all on Sunday night.
God bless you and I will see you next week at the Gathering!
-Tim
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