What Is Your Aim?

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Daily Devotional, John Piper, 163859, Desiring God, Joy, Devotional, Christianity, Jesus, Solid Joys, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

God did not create humans in his image to be aimless, like lifeless leaves blown around in the backyard of life. He created us to be purposeful.

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0:00.0	December 27.
0:05.7	What is your aim?
0:08.7	Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God, 1 Corinthians
0:14.8	10, 31.
0:18.0	And whatever you do in Word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
0:26.1	to God the Father through Him, Colossians 3, 17.
0:31.2	When you get up in the morning and you face the day, what do you say to yourself about
0:36.8	your hopes for the day?
0:39.0	When you look from the beginning of the day to the end of the day, what do you want to
0:44.4	happen because you have lived?
0:47.7	If you say, I don't even think like that, I just get up and do what I've got to do,
0:53.6	and you're cutting yourself off from a basic means of grace and a source of guidance and
0:59.2	strength and fruitfulness and joy.
1:02.5	It is crystal clear in the Bible, including these texts that God means for us to aim consciously
1:10.2	at something significant in our days.
1:13.8	God's revealed will for you is that when you get up in the morning, you don't drift
1:19.6	aimlessly through the day, letting mere circumstances alone dictate what you do, but you aim
1:26.2	at something that you focus on a certain kind of purpose.
1:31.3	I'm talking about children here, teenagers and adults, single married, widowed moms,
1:38.5	and every trade and every profession, aimlessness is akin to lifelessness.
1:46.5	Dead leaves in the backyard may move around more than anything else, more than the dog,
1:52.6	more than the children.
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