Living for the moment

As My Family and I watched the Olympics, and observed some of our guys and gals recieving the gold medals that they had won, I used the time as an opportunity to reflect upon my life, as well as use it as a teaching moment for my kids. I reminded them that these atheletes were the best of the best, but that it did not happen overnight. I told them that the summer games only happened every four years, and that most of these people have dedicated their entire lives to live for this few days of competition. I heard on a radio broadcast a few weeks ago that the average gymnast spends over eighty thousand dollars to be trained! For these families, nothing else mattered. It was all about 2008. No activity, thought, trip, desire stood in the way of the one shot that they would have to make the team. Nothing!
My hearts desire is to have that level of desire for what God wants to do in my life! No other goal can compete. No award can take the place of the gold medal Christ has for me. Once I put this as my priority, I find many things that I do can be discarded to make room for what is important. Like Paul in the book of Phillipians, I am finding things that I now consider rubbish in order to press toward the prize. May I make the team, and finish well, and may I meet you there as well. Jory