a goat

While eating quesdillas, a good friend asked me, "what do you want to accomplish this year?" I don't remember what I told her. But in the interest of your time spent reading this, I'll share what I think is the answer. I'll first share about the fact that the parable of the prodigal son has come up close to every single day for about 3 weeks. Both speakers at FCA have talked on it, and my Bible study is going through the book, the Prodigal God by Tim Keller. One of the guys at FCA made a good point about it, something different that I hadn't heard. He focused in on the line said by the older brother,"Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends." You never gave me. The Father gives us literally EVERYTHING, yet we respond in selfishness. It circles back around to what I want to accomplish this year, that being a decrease of myself. Having more of a servant attitude in particular. My problem of too much ME comes from my focus, and routinely my focus is not on serving. But like so many other things Jesus calls us to do, its not simple. Serving as an action focuses on Me, but serving as an act of worship focuses on Christ and that's the one I'm going after. This humbling thing has been a theme lately and I know exactly why. I dig it.