Pure Profit

TRUTH

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Mark‬ ‭8‬:‭36

REFLECTION

Most of my days are caught up in non-eternal work.

It can feel never-ending, but it’s usually the minutia of a day like any other with concerns like many others with consequences that may echo, at most, for a little while.

But I typically carry the weight of eternity with each of those decisions. The false weight I’ve assigned myself not because of any true thing, but because it gives a little more meaning to the actions I’m carrying out.

Even when I am begrudgingly walking through my tasks. Perhaps more so when this is the case.

I can get a silly pleasure from acting like a self-sacrificial servant to things that are temporal.

I want my work to matter. And by this, I mean all my earthly work. Sure, I want to perform well in my jobs, but I want to adopt a kingdom-view of all the tasks that I am involved with.

This involves both a drive from within as well as a pointed direction away from self-serving. I must misdirect myself.

I cannot be the point. That tracks right back to the addictive behaviors of the past when all things worked together for my own good.

I must point toward Him in all things.

I must pry my hands off of the levers I think will get me what I want.

Letting go sucks…only because I don’t do it enough to see its benefits.

God, help me desire the things of the Spirit.

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NEXT

When you’re ready, here are some tools for you:

1. Book List (amazon link)
   Some of my favorite reads related to recovery and/or wrestling with faith.

2. 4th Step Guide (free download)
   A PDF with instructions and worksheets for a thorough 4th step. Straight from the Big Book. Fearlessness not included.

3. 12-Step Christianity (YouTube)
   My thoughts on the parallels between discipleship and sponsorship.

KEEP LEANING FORWARD

Cheers, Eamonn
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