“I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live.” Gal 2:20aI heard someone say that at age 20 a person will worry about what everyone is thinking about them. At 40 they stop caring about what everyone is thinking. At 60 they realize that no one had been thinking about them in the first place! I guess the moral of this joke is that we often suffer from an over-inflated ego. In the quest for “Formation Prayer” we are benefited by standing back and reflecting on our mortality.
With the advent of Facebook, Blogging and Twitter our natural tendency to a narcissistic self interest can be pampered and preened very nicely. But the reality is that if no-one reads these entries life still goes on and things still get done. Many thoughts are sent out through the internet but their relevance may be questionable. Rather than a morbid thing, contemplating our significance acts as a check against an over inflated ego and promotes a healthy prioritizing of things.
Today, let’s recall the short span of our life and the heavenly courts that soon await Christ’s brethren. The accolades we tend to seek will one day be satisfied and fully resolved in our entry to our eternal destination where all praise will go to God for what He has done. In prayer, marvel at God’s mighty plan and ask that in each moment we will die to live, or live to die. For it is in dying to our selfishness that we find the true principle of abundant life.
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