What Matters?

*(When I say 'you' in this post, I am speaking to myself. You can choose to take whatever you want out of it)

I want you to ask yourself a question... What really matters? What matters in life? What matters to you?

Be honest with yourself. Is it what you intend to matter? Here's how I see it - You say things about faith and love all the time. You talk about who you are or who you are not. You talk about belonging to the Body - the community of believers who love Christ. I can tell that you mean these things when you talk about them. They are rooted deep down in you.

But what confuses me is that you are not always who you say you are (or are not). If you are a new man in Christ, if you are transformed by Him and His love, then let me tell you something: You don't matter. When I say this, I am talking about the very nature of which you live for yourself. Yourself does not matter. If you speak about living for Christ, then give up yourself. Completely. Hold nothing back. Every part of you must be given to Christ (we all know that you can only keep what you freely give). So if you're worried about making a difference, building a positive reputation, making sure that others see you as a good person, you have it all wrong. That doesn't matter. What matters is your true intendedness. Your intendedness to belong to Christ and His Body. Once you learn to freely give all of yourself to this Body and to stop worrying about yourself and your status or reputation, then your actions will begin to support who you say you are. They will begin to show who you are not - You are not your own, you are Christ's. So give yourself away.