What's My Story
The Pursuit of Selfish Desires
Mike Hobday
My problem before I received eternal life was self-centeredness. I would do anything to get my way or to satisfy my desires. I had very little thought about others in my life, it was all about me.
My happiness and security was solely based on the things of the world. Job titles, money, houses, things and what ever I could do to satisfy myself and to make myself look "successful" in the eyes of the world.
Overtime, my life became just what I wanted it to be. I had the things I wanted and the things I worked for, but there was still an emptiness inside that still desperately wanted something.
Before I received eternal life, I never really thought about the eternal consequences of my actions. I never considered or thought about how my attitudes and actions would affect my wife and my children and potentially my future grandchildren some day. I lived for the day; never considering the negative consequences and pain I was inflicting on those who loved me the most. It was truly all about me.
Then I a close friend told me about God’s love for me and I received the gift of eternal life. God opened my blinded eyes to my selfish attitudes and actions. I learned that God loved me and had a purpose for my life. God taught me that it is not about me, but all about Him. There was a peace and a purpose that entered my life that filled that emptiness that I could never fill. From that moment on, I had true happiness and peace. Life was not all grand at times, but even in the hard times, God’s peace and provisions were always there with me.
Now that I have eternal life, I have learned to place others before myself and God has replaced the selfish desires of my heart with new desires to love Him and others more than I loved myself. This not only gives me peace but joy and purpose as well. My attitudes and actions are not focused on the things of this world, but on the things that are important to God.
The gift of eternal life that I received not only means that I know for sure that I am going to heaven when I die, but it also assures me of a purposeful and meaningful life while I am here on this earth.