It has often been said, but seldom fully realized that too often we have defined ourselves by what we do instead of who we are. There are numerous roles, positions and standings that we have allowed to place boundaries around our spirit stacking out territory of definition.
Why? Well, speaking personally it has always been easier to go down that trail of “stuff” than work on personal integrity and/or the relationship with others and the Divine. These roles, positions and standings include, but not limited to, things like senior pastor, parent, grandparent, spouse, political party affiliation, the values of a financial portfolio, size and/or location of home, type and style of car driven, and/or the victories of our favorite sports team.
Said in another way it would be like measuring our self-worth by what we possess instead of what possesses us.
As we have painfully seen these past couple of year all of those “things” can be taken away by forces beyond our control blurring the defining lines of our territory. And, thus, one purpose of Sunday morning worship is to re-define those factors in our lives that really do matter most. Sunday morning worship provides us an opportunity to once again discover what really matters … a re-discovering of our true self-worth!
Quote for today: “When the peg of material civilization upon which we have hung everything is wrenched out by economic dislocation, and gives way, then everything we have hung on it – our plans, our hopes, our futures – gives way with it and goes down in a crash.” E. Stanley Jones
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