Are you God-centered or Self-centered?

What will be the center of your life?
In other words, who or what are you going to live for? There are a lot of options.

You can center your life around a career, a sport, a hobby, making money, or having fun.
There’s nothing wrong with any of these
things. They’re all fine, but they all make a
lousy center for your life. You need
something at the center of your life that is
absolutely unchanging, that can never be
taken away from you. Because if it can, you
will lose your security. You will always be
under stress. You need something that is
unchanging and secure.

One of the ways you know that Jesus is at
the center of your life is you worry less. Any
time you start worrying, it should be a red
flag, a warning sign that says, “I’ve allowed
someone or something to become the center of my life instead of God.” You could make a person the center of your life, and you’ll be under stress because you know that person can walk out of your life any time or die or get sick.
There’s only one thing you can put at the
center of your life that will never change
and is strong enough to sustain you through life: Jesus Christ.

Do you remember years ago they used to
have these things called Super Balls? When
you bounced it on the ground, it’d go 30 or
40 feet high. Why? Because the center of a
Super Ball was a tightly compacted, solid
core. That’s what gave it its bounce-ability.
When your core is solid in God, you have
bounce-ability. You bounce back from stress faster. You bounce back from problems faster.

You bounce back from grief faster.
You bounce back from crisis faster. You
have something solid in your life that doesn’t
change, and you worry less.
The Bible says in Philippians 4:6-7, “Instead
of worrying, pray .... It’s wonderful what
happens when Christ displaces worry at the
center of your life” (MSG).

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