I sat in my office this morning and hit repeat on a song.  I shut my door, turned up the volume, and dove into the truth of the lyrics to the Matthew West song, "You are Everything."  There's so much beauty in the image that is cast by the words to the song, but I just couldn't get over the first few words of the chorus.  "You are everything that I live for."  You know, I live for so much junk, it hurts to admit.  Money, security, gratification, popularity, humor, and the list goes on describing things that I live/have lived for in my life.  How different could my life be tomorrow if I made the Lord everything and the only thing I lived for, today?

How might my relationships with others change?  Would I spill moment after moment into their lives and refuse to look at it like some sort of investment with a future return?  Maybe I could be called selfless for the first time of my life.  Maybe, just maybe, we could experience the kind of fellowship together that makes outsiders glorify God, like in Acts 2.

How might my approach to my job change?  If I'm no longer living to make a living, I release myself of financial expectations and enable myself to look at my job as so much more than a job.  It becomes a means to live for God...a calling, if you will.  How much more willing are we to work at a calling than work at an ordinary job?  I can't imagine how that might change my daily impact.

How might my alone-time change?  So often, I get run down, and I need to curl up on my chair with a good book, just to recuperate.  If God is EVERYTHING that I live for, that alone time becomes much more a one-on-one time.  I don't live to be alone.  I live to have one-on-one moments with God during every part of my everyday.  I would more faithfully and passionately dive into scripture and prayer, turning my life over to Him daily. 

I came to my job this morning, ready to do an ordinary day's work, and the Lord changed my heart.  How can we live for God alone today, and in our days to come?