Called to "Godliness"
"Train yourself in godliness" — 1 Timothy 4:7 (NRSV) Are you God-centered or are you ego-driven or self-centered? There are people who are ego-driven or self-centered who choose to worship and chase after the acquisition of possessions, power, pleasure, prestige, and the like. However, these are false "gods" that are limited, finite, changeable, unsustainable, and they will eventually pass away. In essence, these people are seeking to center their lives on something that can never bring them ultimate and eternal happiness and, which experience teaches, may likely lead to temporal unhappiness for themselves and others. Instead, like all humanity, you have inherent dignity through being created in the "image and likeness" of God (Genesis 1:26-27), meant to transcend the limits and finiteness of material creation, and to learn and experience that nothing can effectively satisfy your heart's desires other than our relational Trinitarian God—who i...