10 years ago where did you see yourself today?
Think hard. We all have done those "where do you see yourself five/ten/twenty years from now" questions. So what was yours? Specifically, what goals do you think you accomplished? Did you graduate high school? College? Grad school? Did you meet someone special? Did you get that promotion? Did you start that business?
Pick one of those goals (or likely goals) that you had once upon a time in which you achieved. Sometimes this can be hard, but you've accomplished something in the last five/ten years to be proud of - so focus on that. Is life perfect now? Did you "make it"? Is it all you dreamed it would be!?! If the answer is "yes" then congratulations! I'm guessing that's not the case for someone reading this blog or attending this small group...
Try this: what is a goal that you have achieved in that time frame in which God had planned for you...and possibly you had no idea about at the time?
The philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973) gave many memorable speeches; watch the video below to hear one of them. Also of note, you may recognize the art in this video.
The video, you may have guessed, was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, both of South Park fame.
What are your thoughts on the video?
Have you ever thought of crappy song like what they detail at the beginning of the video? How boring would that be?
God intended your life to be a song. Just like Alan states "it was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or dance the whole time."
Dancing is a great analogy in this context! Think of that famous quote "dance like no one is watching." Why is that quote so popular? The reason is because people are so self conscious about how good (or bad) they are at dancing that they are constantly worried about how they look instead of doing what the dance is meant for - to have fun. Have you ever danced with someone who was dancing as if people were watching (self conscious and worried) and then with someone who danced as if no one was watching (fun and free)?
God wants to dance with you and He wants you both to have fun (don't say that to 7th Day Adventists or the people from the Footloose town).
Are you dancing through life? Or are you just waiting for the dip?
Bible References
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
1 Timothy 6:17
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Matthew 6:24-34
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...
John 13:1
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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