Eagy Family Blog

“You may not be sure that you want your life to make a difference. Maybe you don’t care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like being around you, you’d be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job with a good wife, or husband, and a couple of good kids and a nice car and long weekends and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick and easy death, and no hell - if you could have all that (even without God) - you would be satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life.” John Piper, from his book Don’t Waste Your Life

I am often in awe of how John Piper’s writing can call me up and spur me on. If you’ve never heard of Piper, or haven’t read his books or listened to his sermons online, he’s well worth listening to. He has a website at www.desiringgod.org if you want to check it out.

That said, I’m reading the book mentioned above. The last chapter discussed boasting only in the cross, which is the blazing center of the glory of God. This was a cool chapter because one thing I know…outside of Christ, I do nothing with a pure, sinless heart. Everything I do outside of Christ is meant to glorify ME. But now that I am in Christ, my daily battle is to constantly examine my heart and decide if what I’m doing is to bring glory to God or myself.

Ryan brought up a good example just a minute ago because I called him to chat about this concept. A person may volunteer at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless every week, and still be doing it to bring himself glory, not to glorify God. So, my friends, this is heavy on my heart - I want God to be glorified through me. I pray God allows me to be sanctified more and more every day, so I can portray Christ to my kids, my husband and those around me.

To do this, I need Christ to be the BLAZING CENTER of my heart (because without him, I’m trying to glorify myself), my hands (in how I give my children grace and patience), my eyes (to see others as Christ sees them), my mouth (to speak truth to others) and may it all be to the glory of God. May I remember continually the grace I received at the cross!

“Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” Romans 5:2-4