When we make our children, our husbands, our friends or anyone else the center of our world we are not doing good to them.
We are unconsciously placing unhealthy demands on them to be what only Christ can be to us.
When we make our careers or our jobs or our hobbies the center of our world we are putting our hope in things that will end or disappoint us, or not fulfill us completely.
Most importantly we are not glorifying God.
But we are called to put our eyes on Him, we are called to make Him our center. By the power of His strength we can love and care for those we love and we can work hard and well in our jobs, eyes set on Him and hearts delighting in our Savior.
We bring glory to Him and we enjoy seeing and savoring His power working in us
to live our lives with our eyes in the Eternal God who will always satisfy our deepest longings. We cannot do it on our own, it is Him in us!
Hebrews 12:1-2
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
