Mac's and Sara Groves...

Macintosh. The world of macs is one that liberates and enhances creativity, imagination, and simply sophistication. Okay, maybe not quite the last one, but you get the idea (unless you are a PC user, no offense). Mac has a way to integrate your life electronically and organize all the mumble-jumble that happens...with the help of google calendars. Recently, I had a great experience with iTunes. Here is the setting: I'm driving on the interstate and 3, I kid you not, 3 songs play in a row that have to do with time. It was enough to make me think a little bit about this silly thing called time. Leeland was in the mix starting off with...Time keeps moving on...and someday I'll be who I want to be. Then I got to thinking about who I wanted to be; characteristics that I want people to know me as. I am very motivated by what people think of me, which is not a good thing. Sure enough, Sara Groves is on the line up next. She has a very precise yet uncomplicated way of putting into words many of the things that go on in my head. The song, This Journey is My Own, has some great words about not looking for the praise or approval from men, but from God. It really challenged me and helped remind me of what I am living for. Here are some of the lyrics:

Still I want man’s advice, and I need man’s approval
This journey is my own
Why would I want to live for man, and pay the highest price
What does it mean to gain a whole world, only to lose my life
So much of what I do is to make a good impression
This journey is my own
And so much of what I say is to make myself look better
But this journey is my own
...(here it comes!)
And now I live and I breathe for an audience of one

So there it is. We are not to live for the acceptance of others, only to make ourselves feel better. We live, to honor the king, who has so graciously saved us. So that is why we have a decided disposition, as believers, to bring him glory. Not ourselves glory. Only Him. Repeat, not ourselves. Only Him.