Ok...family group tonight was tremendous. Tonight's revolutionizing thought...
God wants me to walk with Him today.
The future is not the issue, it's this day-to-day stuff that He wants me to dialogue with Him over, ask for His help with, and surrender to Him. What good is it for me to tell Him that He has my future and that I'll go wherever He wants me to go, if I'm not giving Him everything in the immediate time and place?
God's will is pretty simple and straightforward...I don't know why I've struggled so much looking for God's will for my life. His will for my life is no different than that which He's willed for everyone else:
Have a relationship with Him.
In faith, everything else will follow. I'm pretty positive that my indecisiveness and most confusion can be remedied by just spending more time with God. At some point back up the road I heard someone say something to the effect of... being a Christian is not about making decision after decision, but merely implementing one decision. The one thing that I decided was to make God numero uno and give Him control. I want to get that down.
But how does one thing become a million and two? Its so natural for me to complicate things. Is that a human trait and something from which we'll hopefully learn to abstain, or just a club of which I happen to be the chair member? Anyway somehow I find such a plethora of things with which to fill my life that the fullness becomes a misery that is in some way so empty. That's when the answer is simplicity.
So simply, the task at hand is to live in God's will today. Meet with Him, be filled by Him, praise and share Him today.
Psalm 63:1-5 - O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
How tremendously refreshing!
3 comments:
one thing that i read in the book, The Pusuit of Holiness, is the idea of how when the Holy Spirit tkaes control, it doesnt kill the sinful nature, but simoply takes the power away from it to control us...
its still there to tempt us and try to confuse us...
i think that is why something simple like "have a relationship with me" turns into so many ideas and questions and everything...
plus satan is pretty good at confusing us also...hes a pretty good liar and good at that stuff as well...
for me, something so simple as Jesus command to Love Him, and love each other always seems to get so twisted in my head and i get all these ideas of things to do when all it does is distract me from actually loving the people i see everyday...and loving the God who saved me everyday because i think that reading my Bible is how i show God i love Him when it isnt the only way...
i think i am rambling, but i hiope you get my point....
ugh....we make it so hard...great post, Heather!! I'm so glad you're enjoying EIU!
so why aren't you moving to UIS? i was just wondering...
Heather Wallace, thanks for this. and i am glad you're enjoying Eastern too...i hope you're having fun in sunny Florida too! let us know how it went! :-D
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