At Church on Sunday, our Pastor gave a very helpful sermon.  While I'll spare you all the details, I will share with you the two points to mull over.  Here's the final two points to go home and mull over:

I need to love God more and more.

I need to care what people think about me less and less.

Sounds easy.  Looks beautiful.  Hard to master.  The good part is is that apparently the two go hand in hand.  The more you love God and live like you do, the more you will need to care less about what people think, because it could start to be unfavorable.  Mind you, the less you care about what people think, the more inclined you'll be to just love God more and more.

Funny though, I'm pretty sure that I've been working through this for some time now.  Particularly the 'caring less' part. As I mentioned in a previous blog (Christmas Story, Daily Truth) I am fairly driven by fear, particularly fear of man.  So this lesson from this sermon is a bit of a trick for me.

Still, Lord, I believe You are calling me to it. I believe the life you are asking me to lead will cause (or is causing) many to think I'm a fool.  Yet, with faith and eyes fixed on You help me to press ahead into Your will and Your ways.  For only then will I be truly satisfied.