Listen, the goal of your life is not to do better. The goal of your life is not to get a husband or a wife, to have three kids and a dog, to have a good paycheck and live happily ever after. That is not the goal of life.

The goal of life is always the glory of God. Friend, that will hold you when your dreams come crashing to the ground because it didn’t work out like it was supposed to – your children, your grandchildren, your job, your spouse. Whatever it is, those things may not work out like you hoped. At the end of the day, if you belong to God, and the Spirit of God is in you, if you have the resolute conviction that your life is primarily for the glory of God, that will hold you. God glorifies Himself through situations, through circumstances, through events we could have never predicted and never understood. I have had those seasons in my life where I’ve had to get on my face in a dark room somewhere and cry out to God and say, “Oh God, if You are glorified, then I am okay.” Hear me, child of God!