Discover the Wrong You Were Born to Make RightSample

We try so hard to build our “great palaces.” We work and we strive and we build and we run toward the perfect and beautiful life. We compare our lives to the world’s standard of the “good life” and complain that ours is less than perfect. We feel entitled. 

But who told us that? Who told us that is how life is meant to be lived? What if we are told how life is truly meant to be lived…but we’re ignoring it? What if we’ve already been shown the goals and purposes of our lives, but we’re so busy pursuing the things we think we deserve that we’re completely missing them? What if Jesus is giving us the blueprints of a life that matters, but we’re so busy building a life according to the world that we’re missing it altogether?

Maybe we’re asking the wrong questions entirely. 

Maybe, if we were sitting down face to face with Jesus, our conversation would look strikingly different. Maybe He would ask, “Are you fighting for what is just? Are you actually working for what is right? Are you rescuing real people out of oppression? Are you providing for individuals who are struggling to make ends meet? Are you standing up for the rights of the foreigner? Are you caring for the orphans in your town or around the world? Are you showing up for the widow who is lonely in your family? Are you defending the cause of people who have no opportunity to defend themselves? Are you an agent of my love in this world? Are you telling the people around you about everything you have found in me?” 

Maybe our perfect houses, perfect lives, perfect image, perfect posts, perfect schedules, perfect routines, perfect meals will not change the world. Because they will not be here forever. They will not matter in eternity.

Do you know what will matter? PEOPLE. The sacrifices we made for PEOPLE. The love we showed to PEOPLE. The resources we gave up for PEOPLE. The time we poured into PEOPLE.

If the news will ever look different, it has to start with us. When we fight for justice, we change the narrative of our world. When we stand up for the oppressed, we change the narrative of our world. When we speak out for the forgotten, we change the narrative of our world. When we honor the image of God in every human being, we change the narrative of our world. When we show unprecedented kinds of love, we change the narrative of our world. 

Question: What “great palaces” of this world most distract you from investing in PEOPLE?