Caution! "That Point" is Ahead!!

So don't be impressed with those who get rich
and pile up fame and fortune.
They can't take it with them;
fame and fortune all get left behind.
Just when they think they've arrived
and folks praise them because they've made good,
They enter the family burial plot
where they'll never see sunshine again.
Psalm 49:16-19

God has raised this as an issue in my life.
Honestly I want to be rich and I want
people to know me and my music. And
someday I want to have my own Aston
Martin and a nice house.
It is ok to desire these things, but to a
point. And I feel that God is warning me
that I am getting close to that point.

Outcry is in a very exciting season.
Many things we have dreamed of are

either here or are within touching distance.
We are writing and producing our own
songs which are being well received. We
are looking to record within the next 4 months.

And we are almost to the point where we are
able to support ourselves financially by playing
worship. Things are exciting, but when things
get exciting it is easy to lose sight of the things
that really matter. Like the fact that we really
don't deserve any of it, and it is by God's grace
alone that we are where we are at. Or the
hundreds of students that we minister to
every week. They are why we do what we do.

Being in a worship band, I need to make
sure that my motives are aligned with
God's. I need to make sure that even
though I want to make money and be
known from my music, that the most
important thing about what I do is the
lives that God will be able to touch
through myself and my music.

And I believe that if I have this heart,
and if I keep God at the center of
my ministry he will bless me beyond
satisfaction.