Would You Like Your Life to Make a Difference?
As we continue looking at church history, I have found myself reminded of a book by Paul Tripp called The Quest for More. Sometimes we can get caught up in our “little kingdom” attachments. These masquerade as activism, legalism, emotionalism, formalism, creedalism, and a host of other “-isms” which in the end leave us empty.
Paul Tripp compels believers to see beyond the worldly deception of personal achievement, success, materialism, in order to break free from this ungodly fulfillment that is too easily satisfied with a mediocre walk with Christ. Instead the author invites committed sojourners to a life characterized by an unyielding passion that pursues God simply for the pleasure of his glorious company and in the process, affect eternal change in a hurting, hopeless world.
Consider the following from Chapter 1:
The Bottom Line:
You were created to be part of something big
There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.
This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live from more than ourselves.
We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling minuscule little kingdoms with a population of one.
His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory.
It is a good thing to have purpose, but if your purpose isn’t tied to glory, you have still denied your humanity.
That transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.
We are created to have lives shaped by a constant pursuit of the glory of humble, dependent community.
In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.
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