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What Do You Want?
Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Season filled w/ attitudes and emotions.
Being thankful is an attitude.
Often times it’s driven by having what you want.
So, what do you want?
Not a simple question.
What do you value?
Consider important?
There are things we naturally want, immediately want this year.
But, a few years ago and in a few years we want something else.
Which can lead to regret which causes a problem being thankful.
Regret is not being able to get what you want b/c you got what you wanted.
Too often, getting what we want now prevents us from getting what we want later.
That’s b/c we get consumed w/ what we naturally want over what we ultimately want.
So, the question is, what do you really want?
What do you value?
What we immediately want is in conflict w/ what we ultimately want.
So, what do you want?
Eulogies
Stephen Covey, in his book, 7 habits of highly effective people gives this assignment.
Into a funeral home see your friends and family.
It’s you in the coffin.
In 3 years you’re going to die.
4 eulogies: Family, friend, co-worker, church.
What do you want people to say about you?
What difference will you have made in their lives?
What do you want people to say about you?
Accomplishments, collections, or character?
Character traits over accomplishments.
If you nail down what you want these people to say about you at your funeral you will discover what you value and that should drive your choices today.
These are the things you really want.
I can tell you one thing right now we all want.
You want your adult children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to respect you.
Which would be reflected in how they talk about you after you’re gone.
No thing or fling is worth losing the respect of you family.
Decisions that you make today will affect what they say about you at your funeral.
You’ll have it if you think ultimately.
You’ll lose it fi you think naturally.
What you want people to say about you then will tell you a lot about what you value now and what you ultimately want.
Getting what you ultimately want will lead to being characterized by others as being thankful.
Why? B/C it’s true.
You will be.
Your attitude toward life will reflect that you have what you really want.
You may be surprised to to realize that what you ultimately want for yourself is very similar to what God wants for you.
So, the question is, how?
How do you get what you really want?
We have to deal w/ a fear.
A fear that if we completely surrender to God He’ll make us give up something we want.
But, is it something we naturally want, or ultimately want?
Afraid to Surrender
Who is God?
Jesus was asked how to pray.
It starts: “Our Father, Who art in Heaven...”
Our Heavenly Father
He is the perfect parent.
Good, earthly parents: What do they want from their children?
Nothing.
Not-so-good parents need their ego fed and want things from their children.
Good parents don’t want anything FROM their children.
Good parents want things FOR their children.
And, God, being the perfect parent does not want anything from us.
But wants things for us.
Is that consistent or conflicting w/ what we want?
Consistent or Conflicting?
We assume a competing agenda.
What I want is at odds w/ what God wants for me.
But, then, I realize that what I naturally want is at odds w/ what I ultimately want.
Still, surrendering to God scares us b/c we think God’s going to require something from us and leave us unhappy, unsatisfied, unfulfilled.
But, it’s what we naturally want, immediately want that will leave us unfulfilled.
We are closer to wanting what God wants for us than we may realize.
We are not that far apart.
So, what is it that God wants for us?
If we were to surrender completely to God, what would we get that would be satisfying, fulfilling?
We talked about Paul last week and what he had to say on the subject of getting what he wants.
We looked at a passage in Romans and Galatians.
Both books written by Paul and very similar in subject matter.
Today, we are going to both books again to look at how we can get everything that God wants for us.
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What would our lives look like if we surrendered to God completely?
Characteristics of Complete Surrender
If God were to suspend our free will and impose His will on us, that is impose His decisions on us, this list is what would characterize our lives.
But He doesn’t impose His will.
He offers it for us to choose.
Therefore, if we did...
Let’s look at the first 3
Love, joy, and peace
Love.
Committed to someone and forgiving them even though they don’t deserve it.
Sacrificing your own desires for theirs.
Joy in the midst of difficult circumstances.
Typically, when you see someone who can stay positive during the worst of times you wonder what they’re on.
Joy reaches the deepest parts of our lives and is genuine even in hard times.
Peace.
An internal sense of contentment.
A disconnection but not denial of the stressful circ’s around you.
Some people pay a lot of money for a prescription or subscription for peace.
These, and the rest, are products of a person who is in lock-step w/ God.
These characteristics will solve all of your relational problems.
Therefore, almost all of the highest priority problems you have.
This is what God wants for you.
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