Monthly Archives: March 2011

Tonight seems like a night for writing. I haven’t in a while (seems this is a constant start to my blog – note to self, blog more) and had some stuff on my mind relating to a song by Rudy Vaughn. While you may have never heard of him, his music tends to speak to the heart. Check it out at www.playchasemusic.com. Some of this post was also inspired by the movie “Morning Glory” as well. So here it goes (and as normal on this blog – these are thoughts strait from my head so if it isn’t as grammatical/polished as some other writings I ask you look past that to see how God wants to use it to speak to you – not to us but to HIM be the glory)

Have you ever noticed how much things on earth really don’t matter? Cars, houses, iPods and the like in the long run don’t really matter. While at a retreat that I went on a few weeks ago and we were talking about life as a rope. Our speaker had about 100 ft of rope and one of the ends was about 2 inches and frayed. He said that we live life making decisions based on the here and now (which in some context isn’t a bad thing) but we should be making choices based on eternity. It has started me on a journey of renewed focus.

I feel like for a while I have tended to make a few more decisions based on the frayed end of the rope. So often I used to chose the temporary over the eternal. Then I started to ask the question, why does it matter? Why does it matter if I have money, fame, status, popularity, or anything like that. I couldn’t think of a reason. I guess this is what it means to fully understand (again) what Paul says about throwing off all things so we can run to Christ. God is our focus and we should make it our focus to follow him no matter what.

I look back at life and see the times where I have chased the silver and gold in my life. Status I wanted to achieve, things I wanted to have happen and tried so hard to make work, but in the end I’m finding that following God matters the most. I replaced God with sliver and gold. Tonight while watching “Morning Glory” and listening to the song “Silver and Gold,” it served as a reminder that in the end, it will leave me empty and void. I will not be viewed by God in light of how popular I was, how high I was in a company or what things I started, but by how I loved others. How I loved God.

Admittedly, I’m not great at this. I don’t love as much as I want to love, I don’t care as much as I want to care, I don’t always give my all. I think we could all say this about ourselves but that doesn’t give us an excuse. I want to love others because I see them how God sees them. This means being there, helping them, calling them out in love (which is super hard to do if we don’t do it through the eyes of God).

I think we all have a relationship with God that has times where we end up a few feet (or more) off from where we want to be. In my own life I can see where I have focused more on the silver and gold instead of God. As silly as it is looking back, some of those things were my pursuit. I want to pursue God more than my silver and gold. I want to live sold out for him.

So where are you pursuing silver and gold? It takes many forms but at the root of it, silver and gold is anything that gets in the way of your relationship with God. The “I don’t have time for God” excuse doesn’t exist in a world where we put God above our silver and gold. I would rather go through life and only learn how to love God than anything else.

So lets make a change. Don’t just identify the problem but go after God with a new passion. We can walk this road together, we don’t have it together, we have to rely on grace but I pray that God would give us a passion for him like none other. A passion that doesn’t allow for anything to come before God.

I want more of God, and the point of this blog isn’t to tell you to pursue God because I am doing it and think you should. I just want you to think about it. Where can you pursue God deeper? How can you do this? Give it prayer and then go after it.

May God’s blessing be upon you.

Kyle