You Are The Goal - Better Loving, Better Living
Scripture Reading
1 John 4: 7&8 (KJV)
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. So beloved let us love one another.”
Introductory Remarks:
Today, millions around the world will watch the FIFA World Cup Final. Every team that reaches this stage has one primary responsibility—to protect the goal. The goalkeeper, defenders, and midfielders work together because they understand a simple truth: if the goal is compromised, the match is eventually lost. Jesus invites us to protect something even more valuable than a football goal.
You are the goal. Your peace. Your joy. Your health. Your wealth. Your purpose. Your relationship with God.
Protecting these is not selfishness; it is faithful stewardship. It is one of the highest expressions of love because you cannot consistently give what you do not possess. At the Universal Foundation for Better Living, we teach that the Law of Demonstration reveals that whatever is alive within us eventually becomes visible around us. When our thoughts, feelings, words, actions, and reactions are aligned with Divine Love, we naturally demonstrate the better life Jesus lived.
Jesus never taught love as merely an emotion. He demonstrated it as a way of being. He understood that when we become rooted in Divine Love, every relationship we enter is enriched. Our families are stronger, our workplaces healthier, our communities more compassionate, and our world becomes a better place because God’s love is being expressed through us.
Today, we will discover that better loving is better living because you are the goal. As you protect the life God has entrusted to you and live from the highest consciousness of Love, you become a blessing to everyone you encounter.
Major Points of the Lesson:
Protect the Goal - Love yourself enough to guard what God has given you.
Stop Scoring Own Goals. - Many of our greatest defeats come from within.
Play from Love. - Love is the highest state of consciousness/awareness.
Give the world a world-class experience. - When you live from love, everyone connected to you is blessed.
Quote:
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the love you demonstrate—to yourself first, and then to the world. Stop exhausting yourself trying to acquire things or win people. Become love. Live love. Demonstrate love. What belongs to you will recognize you, and everything that is in harmony with your highest good will find its way to you with grace, purpose, and ease.”
CBW 2026
ASSIGNMENT:
30-Day Better Loving Challenge: “I Love Myself”
For the next 30 days, let this become your daily spiritual practice:
Your mantra: “I love myself.”
Speak these words:
As soon as you wake each morning.
Throughout the day, whenever you remember.
Just before you go to sleep each night.
Whenever you feel anxious, discouraged, rejected, or uncertain.
Allow these words to become more than a statement. Let them become your consciousness.
Then, before making any decision, responding to any situation, or entering any conversation, pause and ask yourself one powerful question:
“If I truly and deeply loved myself, what would Love have me think, feel, say, do, or choose right now?”
Use this question to guide:
Your thoughts.
Your words.
Your reactions.
Your boundaries.
Your relationships.
Your spending.
Your health.
Your time.
Your spiritual life.
At the end of each day, take a few quiet moments to reflect:
Where did I demonstrate love today?
Where did I score an own goal against myself?
How can I protect the goal better tomorrow?
As you practice this for 30 days, notice how your relationships begin to change—not because you are trying to change others, but because you are becoming a greater demonstration of Divine Love.