You want it...... You got it!

I've had the privilege of hanging out with other pastors and church planters for a few days this week, and we have been studying the book of Phillipians together. I have been thinking about the things I want in life, things I can't get enough of. Here's my list:

I want more passion for the word. Yes, I love it and I'm staking my eternal destiny and my earthly calling on it! But..... to be honest, there is more room in my life to be filled with it. I long for that passion and that desire to be completely saturated.

I want to be a better father and husband. Yes, I love my wife with all my heart, and my children with my life, but that doesn't make me perfect. It also doesn't excuse my deficiancies. I have room for improvement, and I don't want to look back one day and have lots of "I wishes".

I want to be a better leader, a more passionate Christ-sharer, a more committed friend, and a more disciplined man of God. Enough said!

I want to forgive and be forgiven quicker. I want to let God be God, and stop trying to take his place so often. He doesn't want his children to carry guilt, burdons, or responsibility for spiritual results. He wants obedience, he'll take care of the rest!

May the prayer of Paul be mine and yours as well:

What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. Phillipians 3:8-9

Press on!