Day Three: What is it I Want Most?

 Today, I opened up my computer to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies- Designing house add-ons or houses in general. Once upon a time I thought I would love to be an architect, but after an internship with an architectural firm, I found out that architects have to do A LOT of boring city code lookups. 

Still, it's a hobby I have always loved since I was young and using graph paper to design houses and such. 

I am grateful that when I opened up my computer at 9:10, I was reminded that although illness and awfulness have me totally turned upside down, I have this goal to figure out how to make time for my Spiritual learning. 

So that left me pondering, what is it that I want most? I find real joy and happiness designing houses. Lately it has been a creative outlet for me to deal with the rising costs of housing to think of ways I could design accessory dwelling units (ADUs). But is that the thing above all other things I want most?

This is an important question, because I find there are so many things I find joy doing, so many things I want. Perhaps that is part of the why behind the struggle I have had finding the time and the resources to make my spiritual learning, my relationship with God happen daily. There are so many good, worthy things I find joy in. It can be easy to focus on all the good, fun, beautiful things to do and forget what it is that I want most. 

So what is it that I want most? Out of the hundreds or thousands of things I could do, what thing is most important to me to do? 

1 Corinthians 2:2&5   For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

(Image credit: Father and Son by Danny Hahlbohm)

Everything else in this life, no matter its joy or its wonder, must give way to Jesus Christ, to His crucifixion and resurrection, to faith in the power of God. There are many good and beautiful and wonderful things in this world to enjoy, but God's son, God's plan, these must come first. To know Them, this is what I want most!