I really liked today’s lesson. The first few days were interesting, but today was really good. There was a lot from it that I could talk about, and Matt asked a lot of really though provoking questions as we read Philippians chapter 2, verses 3–11, which is all about living in humility and living like Jesus.

He asked the question “Do people have souls?” Or rather, do we live like all of the people around us—the waitress, the bus driver, the teacher, the students, the boss, the dry cleaning worker, the…—have a soul? Or do we just take from them what we need and then go about our day, wrapped up in our own little world.

Oh my word, I am SO guilty of this. Do I believe that all people have souls? Absolutely, yes. Do I live like it? Not really, at least not on a regular basis. That needs to change.

He also asked us to reflect on this: “Are you using God to get something from Him or is God the goal?” We’ve heard that question a few times over the last few months and again, it’s so convicting. I think there is definitely a shift going on in me, but I still have a long way to go.

Lastly, he just said a statement that made me stop and think. Matt said, paraphrasing from scripture, “The rich go away empty because they are contantly seeking what will not fill them.” I think, how much am I seeking after, searching out, things that will not fill me? I feel like God is just really impressing on my heart right now that there is SO much that I constantly do that doesn’t matter—that won’t fill. I don’t want to get to the end of my life and have to give an accounting for all of the ways I was so distracted by things that don’t matter, that I forgot to chase after the one thing that does matter—God.