Three Things More Important Than Finding Yourself
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Three Things More Important Than Finding Yourself

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As young adults, we hear and see a lot about finding ourselves and figuring out our place in our world. I don't know about you, but I've never personally identified with that mission. To me, it's about discovering other, more important things in my life and allowing my personality and my "place" to follow along with and adapt to whatever it is I find out.

1. Your relationship with God.

The thing about having a relationship with yourself is that a huge part of you and your core being is God, himself. You can't get to know yourself without knowing God because He has made every part of you in his likeness. If you try to find yourself without first finding God, you will never feel totally fulfilled. There will still be emptiness and doubt. That's not to say that you will feel 100 percent confident for the rest of your life as long as you go to church on Sunday. There will still be struggles and hard times, but they will be so much easier when you have the perspective of His daughter/son.

2. Your relationship with those around you.

Keep in mind that "those around you" includes your family, your friends, your roommates, your classmates, your co-workers, the man checking you out at Wal-Mart and the woman scanning your book at the library. It even includes the people bowling in the apartment above you, the person on Facebook who won't stop messaging you, the skater boy who almost knocks your computer over every time he comes into class and even the crazy b**** who stole your man. Your relationship with everyone that experiences your presence in your life should be treated with kindness and compassion. The way you treat your enemies should be of much more concern to you than the way you treat yourself.

3. I mean honestly, pretty much everything.

Take it from someone who wouldn't mind being more important than... pretty much everything—you aren't. Actually, the least of your concerns should be yourself. One of my all time favorite C.S. Lewis quotes says:

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”

The world doesn't care about what you think your role in it is. Your role in your material life is predetermined for you by the Creator Himself. Don't allow the world to convince you that it has a place for you because your real place is in the afterlife with our Father. Don't just settle on discovering what you were made for on this earth because you were made for so much more.

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