Life - and especially the life of faith - is like a walk, a really long one. There are seasons where the pace is high, or when the incline feels impossibly steep, and there are times when the road is flat and wide and the pace is easy and steady. There are also seasons when it feels like you are injured and it takes all of your energy to just put one foot in front of the other. But still, we walk.

So, the question - which I had to answer for myself - and that I am asking you to consider now is … how much time, and energy, and emotion, and resource are you spending in pursuit of things that the world tells you are admirable but that God says are monstrous? Do we believe Him when He says that life is not made up of the abundance of our possessions, and that it is impossible to love both God and money? Or are we content to rationalize His commands away down into something that we can accommodate in our own current lives without causing too much disruption? Maybe the things that you strive towards are actually things that take you away from the life of flourishing that Christ has for you!