This Question Will Guide Your Life - Dr. John Ortberg
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This Question Will Guide Your Life - Dr. John Ortberg
"What do you really want?
According to the Gospel of John, that's the first question Jesus asks His would-be disciples:
“What do you want?”
In this reflection on Psalm 1, John Ortberg explores why that may be one of the most important questions we ever answer.
Our lives have a way of organizing themselves around our deepest desires.
How do you spend your time?
Your money?
What makes you angry?
What are you willing to sacrifice for?
Those things often reveal what we want more accurately than our words do.
Psalm 1 gives us a picture of a different kind of life: a flourishing person, like a tree planted beside streams of water, with roots sunk deeply into God.
And John closes with the remarkable story of Natan Sharansky, who spent years imprisoned in the Soviet Union and memorized the entire Book of Psalms.
When he was finally released, Sharansky refused to cross the bridge to freedom until his captors returned his copy of the Psalms.
What we fill our minds with matters.
Because what fills our minds helps shape what we desire.
So today, ask yourself:
What do I really want?
And:
What am I filling my mind with?
In this episode:
The first question Jesus asks in John's Gospel
How our lives reveal what we actually want
Psalm 1 and the meaning of “blessed”
What biblical flourishing looks like
The tree planted beside streams of water
Why invisible roots matter
The progression of walking, standing and sitting
Why Psalm 1 isn't a formula for easy circumstances
How inner goodness crowds out envy and greed
Natan Sharansky's remarkable story
How the Psalms sustained him through Soviet imprisonment
Why what we fill our minds with shapes our lives
Scriptures:
John 1:35–38 • Psalm 1 • Acts 20:35 • Matthew 7:12" from the video introduction
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