Be better
Be stronger
Be connected
Be successful
Be attractive
Be thinner
Be thicker
Be loving
Be present
Be available
Be giving
Be forgiving
Be world-changing
Be courageous
Be spontaneous
Be daring
Be adventurous
Be wealthy
Be healthy
Be everything more than what we are now.
Always pushing, doing, evolving, yet the taste of freedom is stale and superficial never quenching the thirst that wells deep in our souls.
So many masters beckon us, and we comply, listen, and adhere to more than we even know.
We cling to and create bonds with these masters.
The master of competition, being better.
The master of brute strength, being stronger.
The master of over-saturated, artificial social gatherings, being connected.
The master of over-worked and tiring workaholism, being successful.
The master of vanity, being attractive.
The master of eating less, being thinner.
The master of eating more, being thicker.
The master of niceness and not honesty, attempting to being loving.
The master of being overly caffeinated and intoxicated with being relevant, being present.
The master of over-tired spirits and over-commitments, being available.
The master of half-hearted community service, being giving.
The master of cordial hypocrisy, being forgiving.
The master of staying on top of the social ladder, being a world-changer.
The master of mindless decisions, being courageous.
The master of being all things to all people regardless of the toll it takes on you, being spontaneous.
The master of all for one and none for all, being wealthy.
The master of saying yes to self-sabotage in the name of self-care, being healthy.
The master of your not enough, being not enough.
So many crafty masters with powerless promises, none setting anyone free.
We ricochet back and forth, bouncing back not from glory to glory rather to breakdown to breakdown.
We trade in our freedom for the counterfeit.
There is a different master, helper, leader, shepherd, that desires to change our internal reality where we can live a life more abundantly free.
We try so hard to change our external realities, being more, and more, and more, yet our internal experience is left unchanged. We still feel a void, emptiness that cries out for more.
Psalm 23:1 says “The Lord is my Shepherd, I lack nothing”.
Choose to be limitless. Choose surrender, choose to let go, choose to not be ruled by these limiting masters of this life that can not and will not provide you true freedom.
Choose the Good Shepherd.