If you want to achieve your goal, invest in the future! It is a common saying we hear from many motivational
speakers.
Goals are set individually. The goals that we set individually are impermanent.
No one in the world could be satisfied even after achieving the material goals
that we set. We can set goals after goals, until when? Would we be satisfied
after achieving it? Is there any goal that can give a final satisfaction? Is
there a final goal? The best ever achievement any human can achieve? For
example, if I set a goal to gain a top degree from a top university, once I
gain it, I will set another one to get the best paid job? may be after that to
be rich? We can get one after another. But none of these material goals can
give us full satisfaction. Every one of us are made of body and soul. The goals
that we set, give us the bodily or earthly satisfaction. But our own souls
thirst for something beyond this material world. We often do not listen to the
cry of our own soul. It always stays unheard and unnoticed. We need to have a
pause from running for goals after goals and listen to the cry our souls in solitude.
Then we should be able to listen and understand the soul’s desire, the desire
to reach back to our creator. That is the final goal, the goal that has been
designed for us by God, our creator. God has already set a goal for us. The goal
of heaven. ‘So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which
is God’s call through Christ Jesus to the life above’ (Phil 3:14). We need to
keep this priority in our day today life as Christians. Invest in things that
will help us to achieve the prize of heaven. Spend time in prayer, meditate on
our heavenly goal and live a life according to the will of God.
But, the society that we live, always distract us from our
goal of heaven and drive us towards gaining money, possessions and material gains.
There is nothing wrong in gaining riches in a genuine way and achieving many
goals in life, but we need to set priority for our final goal. Our riches become a problem when we start loving them more
than we love God. We need to set priority for God, above our material gains. When
priorities are in order, we will first seek the will of God in our lives.
Mathew 6:33 says, “but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and
all these things shall be added to you.
However, often we forget about our final goal and do nothing
about it and be immersed in the thoughts of achieving the temporary goals. That
is why Jesus said, only a few will make it. Jesus tells us in Mathew 7:13-14, “Go
in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that
leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is
narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find
it”.
It is hard to achieve our real goal in life. We may fall
away from the path that is designed for us by God. We need to constantly in touch
with God through prayer, to stay in the path. We need to seriously think about
it and come back to the track, every time we fall out of it. With our human
abilities, it isn’t possible to stay in the track always, but with Jesus, we
can do it. Jesus will guide us through the path, He is God and He became a
human to take us all to the heaven, the everlasting goal. Jesus is the way, the
truth and the life. Let us try to stay close to Him and be submissive to Him.
He has a plan for us, a plan to guide us to reach our eternal goal of heaven.
God bless!
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