Honor, Glory, Wealth
Warning, from an outsider’s perspective, I admit, the following confession could be seen as annoyingly audacious, and if that’s what you come away from it with, I apologize. I apologize because you don’t know the size of my dreams, and you might be suffering with dreams of your own which are far too small.
Here is the first draft of my life goal:
I don’t want honor or glory. I want wealth, sure, but not as you Americans want it. I want wealth because I believe I was made to be a steward for wealth. I believe I was made to share wealth in a way others would be blessed by my blessing. No, I don’t want honor. If you’re going to praise me, say he found his place in God’s story. Say, “Joe figured something out about God’s plan for him, and lived that plan magnificently.” Don’t honor me with this world’s glory but the next’s.
Haha. That is an annoyingly audacious goal for a 22 year old with little life experience, little worth praising, and definitely no wealth to speak of. However, it’s my goal to be able to say it one day, that I figured something out about God’s plan for me, and that I lived that plan magnificently.
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