Aim High

How good is your aim? If you don’t aim high, you’ll always fall short and miss the mark.

December’s Awakening, Day 7

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

 —C. S. Lewis

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

 —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim—have a high standard—make Jesus your ideal…make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

 —Eric Liddell

            The farther away the target, the higher you must aim to hit the mark on center. I’m not precisely sure, but I think heaven is a good distance away. And Jesus is the measuring rod, the standard, the example that we are admonished to mirror. Jesus knew His path and purpose, and even at a very early age, probably about twelve, He was about His Father’s business (Luke 2:41–50). He well knew what His lot was, and He unrelentingly drank fully of the cup He had chosen and been given, and He perfectly performed His life purpose unto His sacrifice on the Cross—all unselfishly for us. His was the ultimate purpose of a life, “to lay down His life for His friends.”

            As you contemplate what that means to you, don’t you think He is worthy of the best and most that we can give back purposefully to Him? It’s time to take hold of your purpose and drink fully of the cup that you’ve been given. It’s time to live your life with His purpose and perform it to the very end. It’s time to lift your eyes and aim to heaven and hit the mark on center. It’s your time to live for Him.