Waypoints

When you get to be as old as I am you begin to reflect on your life. Did it have meaning? What did it accomplish? Will anyone remember me after I am gone?

If we look at life as a journey, what will it look like when we get to the end of it and look back on where we have come from?

There will be highs and lows, scars and healings, laughter and tears.

Surveyors have a term they use for readings taken with their instruments along a particular path. It's called a waypoint. 

Waypoint - a point between major points on a route, as along a track. Any mapped reference point on a route that can be easily identified.

Our lives are a series of waypoints. Memories, turning points, major events, are all waypoints in our lives. What are yours?

In the movie The Natural the characters portrayed by Glenn Close and Robert Redford reflect on their lives. Opportunities missed, and mistakes made. But in the end, there they are.

"I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with, and the life we live with after that."

What are the waypoints in YOUR life? How have they shaped you? God uses every part of our lives to speak to others.

How did we handle a certain situation? Would Jesus be proud of us for the way we've treated others?

In Paul's letter to church in Rome He said this:

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son," - Romans 8:28-29

Did Jesus suffer? Did He experience both highs and lows while He was here on earth? Did He endured all things for the glory of His Father in heaven?

We are who we are. How can we translate our life's waypoints to bring glory to God?

This life we are living is not just about us. It's about Jesus and how we lived it through Him and for Him.

"For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen." - Romans 11:36

Two Lives - The Natural

Only Jesus - Casting Crowns