God's Plan.

Lately, I've been thinking about the comforting Christian phrase: "God has a plan for your life!"
Whether that is true or not doesn't really matter.  God has a plan.  The question is: Are you in or are you out?  Every moment, every decision you are either growing closer to or further from him.  Everything else is circumstantial. 

It's possible that I am wrong about this, that the specifics of my trajectory are of utmost importance.  But I can't help but feel like I've wasted too much time on thoughts and actions related to comfort, wealth, power, direction and calling.  Proximity to Christ is the only thing that matters.  God has a plan and it's a lot bigger than my life.  He wants me, he loves me, he accepts me...that should be enough to determine: Am I in or am I out?

^{John 14:15} “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”