What Is the Life You Want Me To Live?

I am using John Eldredge's book and workbook, "Walking With God," as a part of my daily devotions. He gives a question that he has begun to ask God, that I think would be both a challenge and an answer to life, "What is the life you want me to live?" As a Christ follower, isn't that the question we ask when we ask for God's will. God's will for us is that we live as His followers, in His way of life.

Children's author E.B. White penned this note in the New Yorker in 1936:

Shopping in Woolworth's in the turbulent days, we saw a little boy put his hand inquiringly on a ten-cent Christ child, part of a creche. "What is this?" he asked his mother, who had him by the hand. "C'mon, c'mon," replied the harassed woman, "you don't want that " She dragged him grimly away, a Woolworth Madonna, her mind dark with gift-thoughts, following a star of her own devising.

Maybe the question really asks us, "Which star do you choose to follow: the one the wise men followed, or the ones fools follow?

Too many times we follow with fools.....