Everyone begins their adult life journey with great hope and promise. It's like climbing a mountain.
Climbing this first mountain is all about achieving 2 goals:
Establishing your identity
1. Defining yourself
2. Managing your reputation
3. Becoming who you think you're supposed to be
Achieving the American Dream
1. Successful career
2. Personal happiness and security
3. Nice home, nice family, nice vacations, good food, good friends
But...and there is always a but... almost always something happens. You fall into the valley of bewilderment or suffering, anxiety. The fall happens because of...
• Failure. You blow it. You make a huge mistake.
o Suddenly life doesn't look like steady success.
• Life-altering pain or tragedy - something unexpected, personal or in others close by
o Death, illness, breakups,
• Is this all there is? There must be something more. Life is disappointing
o You taste success and find it unsatisfying
• Normal Life change...
o Mid-life or quarter life crisis
What now?
When you get knocked off the mountain of ideneity and the American Dream and the first layer of your life has been strip mined. You wonder what is left? Who am I?
The good news is that there is a second mountain...the mountain of destiny.
This climb is ...a further and fantastic journey. Richard Rohr
John 14:12-14
12 "I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13 You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. 14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!"
All of his works were second mountain works
• Going after the 1 and leaving the 99
• Searching for the lost
• 100% others oriented work
• He lived a life of destiny
This is how much Jesus wants you and me to live on the 2nd mountain of destiny...he's offering his help IN ANY WAY!
• What do you need to get to your destiny? He'll provide it!
• What do you want to be reshaped in your life? He'll help you!
• Who do you think you are called to be? He'll show you!
I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. John 15:6,7-8
