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Remember your Creator when you are young.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

What do you want in your spiritual life? What’s your goal when it comes to worship? Your relationship with God was designed for something, but are you matching up with that design?

When you want things for yourself, when you come to him just for peace or blessings, or when you want him to make you feel complete or happy, you miss out on the whole purpose for your salvation: for you to love him. Your faith didn’t save you so that you could get all you want but so that you could get back to a right relationship with the Father. That relationship isn’t about getting but giving. Think of it like this: the two greatest commandments aren’t about your peace or your happiness but about stepping outside yourself and loving God and your neighbor, not yourself (see Matt. 22:34–40).

You weren’t put here on earth to develop your spiritual life so that you could “arrive” and then just lie back and rest. No, you were made for much more, and that much more starts with a shift in your goals. What you want each morning when you get up will determine who you become every day. The God Girl makes her goal not her own emotional well-being but knowing her God—remembering her Creator while she is young (see Eccles. 12:1). When he is your goal, everything else falls into place, and then no one can hurt you, slander you, or damage you. Nothing others do will faze you when your goal is not to feel good, or even to be happy, but to know God more. Each morning when you get up, tell yourself, “Today my goal is God himself—not happiness or peace or even his blessings, but him and him alone.”