Why Do You Wake Up? To be enslaved?

What are the top 3 reasons for waking up? Can you name them and defend them? I wake up because I can LOL! Some people wake up to make more money, some to accumulate, some to be served, some to achieve greatness, some to just consume. It takes time to understand what it is that you wake up to. We try, at the Center for Faith & Work, to help people get to ask themselves that question. Then we try to build a community for people to explore and understand.

Matthew 20:27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave - just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Hard to Find

A good person is hard to find, let alone one who is humble. Tim Keller said that because of our human nature when we have some measure of success that we think it is all "us". Success is complex. Success is not all because you worked really really hard or had a good pedigree. What is the source of the success? It is part of a bigger plan that our Creator sets forth. While we may not understand why some are chosen to be "successful", it is really how we live our lives. Out of gratitude. What does that look like? A live of stewardship.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before teh days of trouble come...