The Importance of Connecting Your Life to Your Ultimate Story

If where you get your meaning and identity, if the story that you're living for is your productivity and achievement at your job or in your family or in your city, then you know what's going to happen? All your successes will go to your head. When you succeed, you'll be proud and smug. You'll look down on everybody else who isn't nearly as effective as you. If you're single, you'll never be content in your singleness. And even if you have a blissfully happy marriage, one of you is going to die. It doesn't depend on you; it depends on Jesus. Even when your whole life is falling apart, God's work is going