change

Change.... It's never easy. Or at least it seems that way. Why is it that when you are on the front side of something big that's about to happen it scares you to death, but when you are on back side you rejoice and see things differently. I guess this is what growing your faith is all about. When push comes to shove are we really willing to believe what the Bible says about God's character? (That He is trust-worthy, faithful, and loving) God has great plans for us, but we sometimes choose to write our own stories because we aren't willing to change, even when we know that the end result with God would be a New York Times Best Seller.
CHANGE, maybe we should put more thought into changing our attitude towards it.

not my home

As I was reading this morning I was once again reminded that my life here on earth is not at home. Home for me is heaven, that place that Christ has gone to prepare for me. When you stop and think about that, Christ preparing for me, it blows me away. Questions like, "Why someone like me?" or "Do I really deserve it?", come to mind. It is interesting how we long for such things here on this earth (the temporary), but yet know that (or at least I think we know) eternal things are more important. I have to just keep in mind that I am not home yet and that God has more in store for me to do while here on His earth.
I believe that the beauty we see here on this earth is just a glimpse of the beauty we will experience in heaven. What a day that will be when I step into heaven not because of my own doing, but because of the Cross of Christ.

me or HIM

Don't know what I really want to talk about today, but I will write anyway.

Just finished reading a great book by Erwin McManus, Chasing Daylight. It was a great book. I have so many quotes from the book, but one that stuck out to me was this one:

Your focus should not be, "What is God's will for my life?" but "How can I give my life to fulfill God's will?"

I think that as Followers of Christ we tend to get hung up on asking the 1st question all the time. Is it a bad question, no, but the intent leads us to an area that we shouldn't drift toward. What I mean is that when we ask that question we seem to keep asking that question over and over until we get the answer we want or like. It might go something like this, "God what is your will for my life?" "Really, are you sure God, I don't know if I heard you right, I think that you have me mixed up with someone else, I will just keep asking again (at least until I hear what I want to hear). The first question, "What is God's will for my life?", seems so self- centered when you really think about it (MY Life). The second question, "How can I give my life to fulfill God's will?", is focused more on serving and giving than taking and getting. "How can I give", allows me to join in with what God is up to and doing right now around me. The focus has shifted off of a self-centered mentality to a Savior centered mentality. It's not that I don't want to know God's will for my life it's just that I know from the Scriptures what God wants me to be doing. If we truly follow God and His Word and are willing to give of ourselves completely to Him I believe that we will be doing God's will for our lives. It's all about perspective. It is spelled out right there in front of me as I study and read His Word. There are just somethings that we are commanded to do and yet we treat them as though they are for someone else.