A Life of Worship vs. The Worship of Life a Poem
The first months of the year are often a time for goal-setting and resolution making. Here is a brief warning and reminder as we walk through 2016 in God’s grace.
Are we working for an earthly heaven?
Shaping life as we want it to be
Busy to satisfy insatiable need
Our great goal to feel happy and free?
We struggle for more…
More money, control and more satisfaction
More earthly joy, experience and fun distraction
More of everything we want and need
We fill ourselves empty when indulging our greed
We struggle for better…
Better life, better love, better situation
Better work, better goals, better concentration
We want all the best to live life full and long
The desire for perfection is fatally strong
It is good to work hard and desire for better
To improve and grow and be a goal setter
But don’t get pulled in to the Deceiver’s great fraud
So that we worship ourselves and this life as our god
Our life is a journey best-lived every day
In celebrating our Savior in every way
Living in His grace, heaven-bound and sin-free
Knowing life on this earth is so temporary
And even if it’s never what we want it to be
God’s given us what we need for eternity.
Adam Nitz
My name is Adam Nitz. I was trained as a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) Pastor and was privileged to serve a congregation in Michigan for three years. After much wrestling in prayer and evaluating personal and family considerations I resigned my call. Part of the new direction my life has taken includes creative writing. I’ve always loved to write. Growing up I filled notebooks with poetry and reflections on life, faith, people and God. I just recently published a novel. I took a real person mentioned briefly in the Bible and imagined what his life's journey may have been like. If you’d like to follow my journey as an author feel free to check out my other blog at www.adamnitz.com. Please check out my book: I Was There When the Giant Fell at www.createspace.com/4761654 or search the title on Amazon.com. I pray that God will use all these writings to bring more people into closer contact with his saving truth--his mighty Word and that hearts and lives are changed by God’s boundless message of grace.
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