Apart from the transforming grace of God, it is natural for us to live for ourselves. We want to pursue our dreams, desires, and plans without due regard if God is also pleased as we pursue these things in our lives. As we pursue these things for ourselves, we realize deep inside our hearts that there is always something missing. We also realize that it is tiring to live for one’s self. We are not meant to live for ourselves. Our selves will always fail us. Our selves will just want more and more and more of what we pursue. It’s a never-ending vicious cycle of wanting more and being empty in the process.
We are meant to live for Someone bigger than ourselves. We are meant to live for the One who created us; the One who made us for his purpose and design; the One who wants to use us for His glory, our joy, and the good of others. It’s tiring to live for ourselves because we will always be dissatisfied as we seek our self-centered aspirations in life. Only God can satisfy our souls. Desiring God is the only means through which our insatiable desires can be met because He alone is endlessly satisfying. Only the cause of God to save sinners through the preaching of the gospel through us is the greatest cause we could ever live for.
We are not our own. So let us stop living for ourselves. We are not our own because we are bought with the precious blood of Christ. (1 Cor. 6:20) So let us live for God; our rightful Owner; our righteous Master; our all-wise Creator. And as we joyfully live for Him and sacrificially live for others, we know deep inside our hearts that there is where our utmost joy can be found. We are not meant to be the center of the universe. God created the universe to be so staggeringly vast and created us to be like specks of dust in comparison to speak about one thing: that God is truly the Center of everything and that we are not. Let us surrender our lives for Him and His great cause for it to truly matter, knowing that everything done not in accordance with the glory of God will just be put to waste.
By grace alone 
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