Last night I could not sleep, so I began to reminisce about my life, where it is going, what I am doing, and what will happen in between. I have a lot of things that I want to do with my life (as stated in the list on the rite hand bottom corner) and I am not sure how I am going to get from here to there. Some of the things, like "be a good piano player" I understand...learn to play piano and practice...but things like "get a book that I wrote published" are a bit more difficult. But, I am ok with that, because there are some things that you just have to have faith to believe for.
My purpose in life is to do what God wants me to do, and to be who God wants me to be. I want to be living and breathing His purposes. I want to see what Christ looks like fully manifested in me. I am excited to live. But the question is, what does that mean today? What can I do now to push me closer to my goal?
You know, if I am fully confident in Christ, and "perfect love casts out all fear" then when I see a large spider coming at me (I hate spiders as of rite now) instead of jumping back in fear, I will be able to wonder at the majesty of Gods creation. Our lives today are completely made up of the decisions that we made yesterday....how you react to something is entirely dependent on how you chose to react every other time in your life. I have always reacted to spiders in fear, and because of that, my natural (and almost instant) reaction to them is to shudder, and make a big circle around it ever watching so that it will not get too close.
Considering these things, what does it mean to have faith? What does real living, deciding faith look like? If we as Christians will decide to place all our faith on God, day in and day out, we will then learn to react in a place of faith instead of fear. This does not only pertain to spiders, but also to "what our friends will think of us" and to "I may loose my job". What is it that you are living for? Who is it that you are living for? One of my favorite quotes (its down there at the bottom of the page) is "What looks like an adventure from far away looks like a bunch of little challenges up close" that was said by my friend Pam Hunter who, by the way, lives half of the year in Africa.
We always see the brave night who is the best with the sword, or the captain of a ship who can steer said ship through any type of weather. These men are our heroes, they are the best of the best, the one that no one can beat, but how did they get that way? How many times did that knight have to fight his instructor and loose before he finally knew what to look for? How many nights did that captain have to stay up and watch as his captain steered through the storm? But the interesting thing about this is that they get this way through practice and time, but also by watching their teachers. We must keep focused on Christ. This whole faith issue was started by him...Hebrews 12:1-2 "he is the author and finisher of our faith."
So for today, I will choose to take the little challenge that brings me ever closer to my goal, I will practice piano today, I will begin to work on a character in my book, and through faith, I will keep my eyes on my Jesus, and I will allow Him to take me wheresoever He pleases.
My purpose in life is to do what God wants me to do, and to be who God wants me to be. I want to be living and breathing His purposes. I want to see what Christ looks like fully manifested in me. I am excited to live. But the question is, what does that mean today? What can I do now to push me closer to my goal?
You know, if I am fully confident in Christ, and "perfect love casts out all fear" then when I see a large spider coming at me (I hate spiders as of rite now) instead of jumping back in fear, I will be able to wonder at the majesty of Gods creation. Our lives today are completely made up of the decisions that we made yesterday....how you react to something is entirely dependent on how you chose to react every other time in your life. I have always reacted to spiders in fear, and because of that, my natural (and almost instant) reaction to them is to shudder, and make a big circle around it ever watching so that it will not get too close.
Considering these things, what does it mean to have faith? What does real living, deciding faith look like? If we as Christians will decide to place all our faith on God, day in and day out, we will then learn to react in a place of faith instead of fear. This does not only pertain to spiders, but also to "what our friends will think of us" and to "I may loose my job". What is it that you are living for? Who is it that you are living for? One of my favorite quotes (its down there at the bottom of the page) is "What looks like an adventure from far away looks like a bunch of little challenges up close" that was said by my friend Pam Hunter who, by the way, lives half of the year in Africa.
We always see the brave night who is the best with the sword, or the captain of a ship who can steer said ship through any type of weather. These men are our heroes, they are the best of the best, the one that no one can beat, but how did they get that way? How many times did that knight have to fight his instructor and loose before he finally knew what to look for? How many nights did that captain have to stay up and watch as his captain steered through the storm? But the interesting thing about this is that they get this way through practice and time, but also by watching their teachers. We must keep focused on Christ. This whole faith issue was started by him...Hebrews 12:1-2 "he is the author and finisher of our faith."
So for today, I will choose to take the little challenge that brings me ever closer to my goal, I will practice piano today, I will begin to work on a character in my book, and through faith, I will keep my eyes on my Jesus, and I will allow Him to take me wheresoever He pleases.
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