Its been a longtime since I sat down and did some blogging. In a sense I feel sad for being away for so long but also feeling relieved that God speaks whether its through my blog or through other means. The past couple of months have been a time of reflection and learning and relearning, of stumbling and being picked up, of losing, of gaining, of achieving and of failing. Just a daily journey of realising how loosely I need to hold the things of that I have been given, but also be a good steward of them. A process for me of storing up my treasures where rust and moth cannot destroy (Matthew 6:20).
So back to the reason for this blog today, if you were to look at your life from a distance on the day you die, what would you want to have achieved. My thoughts run straight on to have raised amazing children and be the cool musician dad with tracks that have been heard by churches across the world and are changing lives. "Leave my mark in this world". Is that not the great desire of our hearts to leave a mark, to have a legacy, to be remembered. And not for being deceitful people, but we want to be remembered as helpers, healers, philanthropists. These are all noble desires but got a real knock two weeks ago at a camp when a guy called Drew Land put it quite simply that: "The only mark or legacy we are meant to leave in this world is that of Jesus." Have we ever looked at ourselves that way, that we are mirrors. Some interesting facts about mirrors is that because light travels in straight lines, mirrors can only give a full image of something its directly facing. Another thing is that a mirror has no intrinsic image of its own, it only reflects what it faces. As much as we are mirrors, Jesus has a personal relationship with us, were he is renewing us inwardly day by day.
But when it comes to our accomplishments we are definitely mirrors, because we were created to reflect the Glory not to be the glory.
love, peace and happiness
Tau
