What are you chasing? (Shawn's Yellow Car)

 My Dog loves to chase the wind. Not literally but when he sees the effects of the wind, leaves flying across the street, he gears up and tries to chase them down. 

He also likes to chase down chipmunks, cats, and little kids. 

All to no avail. 

Just like Gunner, my German Shepherd/Black Lab, likes to chase after meaningless things I have notice we are prone to wander after meaningless things. 

The book of Ecclesiastes teaches this theme. "Everything is meaningless!" Man, Am I inspired for greatness!

The point: we try to find satisfaction in many areas.  Maybe you try to find it through Pleasure, wealth, popularity, power, possessions. Or maybe you try to find it through good things like Family Relationships, or doing good works for others, or your job. 

You see, we can do the right thing for the wrong reason if we are chasing anything but God and Him alone. 

Our church actually read a book a few months ago called, "Chase the Lion." In this book, we are told to Chase down our dreams. And this is very empowering because I believe God has given us dreams in our hearts and we should not be afraid and we should chase those dreams. 

But not without God. And Not without God being the primary Person we are chasing Down. If the idea of "chasing down God" dose not work for you maybe a better word is our Focus, our devotion, our passion. The One in which deserves our attention and energy.


Maybe I can share a story??

On Wednesday Night, God gave me a new idea to do with Tribe. 
 

I gave each person ten dollars with the instructions, "listen to God and use it to bless someone else."

The first place we went was Rite Aid. I saw a yellow toy car. It was 9.99. Perfect. God told me, "give it to a st Leo's boy." In the parking lot was Darien, a third grader at St Leos School. Figured he would love it but by the time I walked outside....he was gone! Did I miss my chance?

I was upset, thinking. "I missed it! I couldn't give a toy/gift to a kid during school because that would be favoritism. Hmm maybe God had someone else in mind.

We decided to walk to dollar general. As we are walking I saw four boys that went to SLS standing outside by Northwest Savings Bank. As I crossed the street, I asked God, "Who do you want to have this car?"

I knew I was suppose to give it to a kid named Shawn. Shawn is a handful to say the least. I love having him in my Kindergarten Gym Class but He pushes the boundaries. 

I gave him the toy as his mom came out telling me I didn't have to give him the toy. And I knew I didn't have to. I wanted to. And more importantly, as I told Shawn, "God loves you so much and He sees you as his treasure. He wants you to have this toy to show you his love."

He didn't care too much about my words (Remember he is 5!), he was fixated on the yellow car toy. 


What a fun story. It remembers me of a spiritual activity I did as a youth. It was called Treasure Hunting. In Treasure Hunting, you would pray to God about people He wanted you to pray for as His treasure. Maybe this is Treasure Hunting 2.0? 

Because it is through the generosity of God's people that people on earth see God move.


I don't know how you are feeling today. I don't know what you want in life? And to be honest I'm still working on all of those details myself. But in the meantime "Let's chase down God."

Let's follow Him. Let's seek His face. To what end? To manifest his love to others. Because Honestly what else really matters?