Alright, so for those unacquainted with the term Wild Goose Chase it was coined, so I believe, by Mark Batterson. Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of NCC in Washington, DC as well as the author of In a Pit With a Lion on a Snow Day, Wild Goose Chase, and Primal. A wild goose chase, simply put, is following the Holy Spirit and it's leading. I have learned that as a Christ-follower, we are called to live in abandonment to God, which means excluding the things that are simply for our own glory. Our purpose, which looks many different ways for many different people, is to glorify God.
Following the Holy Spirit is not always an easy task. It takes faith, guts, and a lot of prayer. I started my wild goose chase over a year ago and found that I recently strayed from following the goose by asking the goose to follow me in selfish ambitions. This past Monday, with the urging of the Holy Spirit, I was lead to get back on track. Get back to what Mark Batterson calls "responsible irresponsibility" opposed to "irresponsibile responsibility".
In Genesis Chapter 11, the people of that day built skyscrapers and/or monuments to showcase how great they were and to make themselves famous. Because of that, God turned their language into babble and the human race no longer spoke the same language. I believe that in our lives, although we don't literally create skyscrapers and monuments to showcase how great we are we do accumulate other things. We look to our accomplishments, careers, relationships, resumes, experiences, or even our material belongings to display how great we are. Those things distract us from God and this past week I've been evaluating what things in my life I look to for value, fame, or worth. Our worth is in being a child of God. Glory is not ours to have. Accomplishments, careers, relationships, resumes, experiences, degrees, material belongings, or even skyscrapers are great, in itself, but when we use them to define our worth...we don't glorify God, and when we don't glorify God we aren't doing what we were created to do.
That's what this blog is dedicated to. It's my accountability to following the wild goose, giving God glory, and creating an electronic "altar" at which I proclaim the great revelations that the Holy Spirit has given me...
I pray that readers, if any, are challenged and inspired to get back to their radical-audacious faith and allow God to use them at every means necessary.
Stay tuned... :)
