What Really Matters

What really matters?

Many people live their whole lives trying to figure it out.

They go to great lengths to attain things, because they think stuff matters.

They work themselves ragged trying to accomplish some great thing, because they think achievement matters.

They make every attempt to conquer and dominate everything they can because they feel power and control matter.

I think all of those things can offer us a temporary feeling of significance, allowing us to feel as though we have purpose and worth because of all those things. But I think if we were to examine the thing that Christ valued over everything, and what fulfilled his purpose, was relationships. The entire purpose of Christ coming was to establish a means for us to be in relationship with him and his father. The miracles he performed established a relationship with the benefactor of those miracles, and all those around who were witnesses to it. Chris was a man focused on relationships, every time he locked eyeballs with someone they were changed forever, why? Because the creator decided to put on flesh and make the relationship that he desires to have with each one of us very personal.

What in life really matters isn't the wealth you attain, the achievements you accomplish, or the power you acquire, what really matters is the relationships you build and the impact you have on those people. Christ left a legacy of relationships. He lived a life that left eternity forever altered by the ripples of the rock of his life being placed into the water of history.

What Really Matters to you?