Saturday morning

In the midst of frying bacon for sleeping teens, I listened to Matt Chandler's sermon for March 3, and had to put down the frying fork and pause and replay the video to write down this thought: "We are broken.  These things aren't meant to satisfy us.  They are gifts that point beyond themselves.  If you make it all about the gift itself, you miss the Giver.  And the Giver is what satisfies, not the gift."  Lately, the gift most tempting to cause me to look to it for satisfaction, treating You as an afterthought, is the desire for anointing and blessing in ministry and outreach.  The desire for a profound sense of effectiveness and purpose within family, work and ministry.  It's crazy that in pursuing things which would seem so close to your heart, I could miss the point of You, as the Giver.  May there be no outcomes I pursue, however lofty they may seem,  which would cause me to set the Giver aside.