I had the opprotunity to listen to a guy by the name of John Starnes speak at cowboy church this past weekend. John was a bullrider who followed the circuit and did fairly well for a "big fellow" as he put it. John struggled along the way and had a buddy whom he thought was "the bomb". This dude had it all. The girls, the perfect bull ride, the perfect life. He spent years being envious of this guy and wishing he could be just like him. One day at a rodeo he crossed paths with this friend coming out of a port a potty. What he saw that day was the beginning of a path of destruction. This friend had a white powdery substance on his nose and face. John wanting to have the "perfect life" thought that doing drugs must be the key to having it all so he joined this friend in doing drugs. He continued on this path for several years until one day he decided he just could not do it anymore and found himself out in the middle of the pasture on bended knee asking God to forgive him and to help him straighten out his life. God answered his prayer that day and has lead him into ministry called pistols and prayer which he does with his wife and four kids.
John's story was just another example of how easy it is to think that we do not have the perfect life just because our wish list has not been fulfilled. It is my prayer that we can look beyond our wish list and see that what truly matters is if God's wish list for us has been fulfilled.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:15-17
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