THE THREE GREAT GOALS OF MY HEART

The gospel of Christ, by the power of God the Holy Spirit, continually compels me to seek three great goals. These three things I have set as goals for which I labor, for which (I hope) I am willing to sacrifice anything and everything. I am seeking TOTAL COMMITMENT TO CHRIST. I want to know his will and walk in his will. I want to bring honor and glory to my God and Savior. I want to surrender everything to him. Be gone all self-care! Be gone all self-ambition! Be gone all self-motivation! Be gone all self-desire! Be gone all self-seeking! Let me live for Christ alone. I am seeking TOTAL COMMUNION WITH CHRIST. My heart longs to know Christ's presence, fellowship, and direction at all times. The very thought of pure, uninterrupted, free communion with Christ at all times fills my heart with bliss. And I am seeking TOTAL CONFORMITY TO CHRIST. I want to be like my Redeemer in thought, in word, and in deed. Like him, full of love, kindness, and tenderness. Like him, thoughtful, generous, considerate. Like him, without sin.

I realize that these goals are unattainable in this life. But the gospel compels me to seek them. I cannot settle for less. "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Pressing toward that mark, when my life's journey is over, I shall have, by the grace of God, that which I seek after - Total Commitment To Christ - Total Communion With Christ - and Total Conformity To Christ.