What Makes Your World Go ROUND?

Over the last week and a half, or so, a lot has been going on in my mind; so for the next few weeks I will be attempting to share my heart with you guys.

Recently I’ve been hearing this idea that we should live "Christ centered" lives and that the key to everything is having Christ be the center of what you do. I also have been reading many books about how to live Christ centered lives and such, so I began to think. Why? What is this whole meaning behind Christ centered lives? You're probably like "that’s a stupid question," but seriously I couldn't find a specific Bible verse where Christ said "make me your center" (though I did see Christ say to follow him and leave everything else aside, and he will take care of you). Nevertheless, I began to contemplate what this is all about.

Lately, I have had many close friends who are ministers or “strong” Christians completely hitting a concrete wall and throwing everything away. They are all real strong in the ministry and love Christ, but all of a sudden, a certain occurrence happens and everything seems to shatter. I don’t get it though. Is that really what Christianity is about; to serve God in the good and not in the bad?

I got to thinking; maybe these people are really on to something with this Christ centeredness. Maybe Christ was hoping we would understand this hidden truth without him spoon feeding us. As I was laying in bed, frustrated with all the nonsense going on, I looked out the window and saw the sun. I started to think. Why does the earth spin or rotate? What is causing the earth to constantly be in motion? What is it that allows the earth to actually stay in place rather than just randomly go through the universe? I started to look it up (yes, I understand it is a bit on the nerdy side). I began to see the reason the earth is spinning is because of the gravitational pull from the sun and its desire to stay in orbit around it. It's kind of as if the reason the earth is actually still in place is solely because of this pull coming from the sun. I then started to look up what would happen if the earth decided to orbit itself. What would happen is that the earth would actually no longer be able to contain life. It would be too far from its source. If the earth one day decided to say that "I’ve been with the sun for enough time and I understand what it can do, but it's time for me to take some time away and do this on my own," every bit of life that existed on earth would fade away. The ability to possess life will also be taken away. Sounds dumb, huh?

Think about what we do so often. We acknowledge that the Father is there, but we decide that we can continue to acknowledge him and do some stuff on our own. We lose focus of what should be our driving force. Rather than having Christ as our center, whom we should revolve around, we decide to let money, power, acceptance, pride, relationships, education, and ministry (yes, I said ministry) be the driving force of our lives. We begin to allow these various things become what “makes our world go round.” What we fail to realize is that there is only so long we can let our lives revolve around these different areas because sooner or later, life will cease to exist. We forget that we actually can’t survive on our own, and sometimes, it is until we get to this point of extreme desolation that we realize we cannot survive without the Son.

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