What is your goal in life???

       If you were asked what is your goal in life, what would you answer be?  If you were asked what is your goal in marriage, what would your answer be?  What is your goal in parenting?  What is your goal professionally?  What is your goal in life?  Do you ask yourself those questions?  Do you think about that? I hope so, because it really, really matters.  Whatever you goal in life is, regardless of this being a formal or informal goal, will determine how you live your life day in and day out!  It will set standards by which you will decide if you have failed or succeeded in any given task.  It will also determine if you will continue at something, or will simply move onto the next thing.  So determining what you goal in life, is of extreme importance.
       As Christians, Scripture makes it very clear what our goal in life should be.  2 Corinthians 5:9, "So we make it our goal to please God."  Pleasing God, or glorifying God, or making God look great, that should be our goal in life.  I was reading the book Sacred Marriage this morning and reminded of the importance of having, "Pleasing God" as the goal of our life.  Since it is the goal of our life, it will be the goal of our marriage, parenting, work, and on and on we could go.  Gary Thomas states, "The first purpose in marriage- beyond happiness, sexual expression, the bearing of children, companionship, mutual care and provision, or anything else- is to please God.  The challenge, of course, is that it is utterly selfless living; rather than asking, 'What will make me happy?'  we are told that we must ask, 'What will make God happy?'"  In all aspects of life, pleasing God, should be our goal.  We will not reach perfection this side of eternity, but how much different would all of our lives be if we became much more accustomed to asking the question, "Will this please God?" in all areas of our life?
       So will you join me in setting your goal in life to please God in all you do?  May we all begin to ask the question, "Will this please God?" a whole lot more!  As we do I am convinced that we will see change in our life as our attitudes, desires, and passions align themselves more and more with God's attitudes, desires, and passions!  "So we make it our goal to please God."