In a Fleeting Moment

Man life goes by so fast.  The sad thing is that even when it isn’t going by fast on it’s own, I am wishing it away.  “I will be glad when summer gets here”, “I can’t wait for Friday”.  I can’t think of a single person that I know that doesn’t feel the exact same way and do the same thing.  One thing that we are forgetting is that we are not promised tomorrow.  In God’s word he says “^{13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. ? (James 4: 13-17)}

So if it is stated plainly that we are not even promised the next breath, why then do we keep on putting off important things for another day?  Why then do we just mull about aimlessly?  Is there nothing important for us to be doing?  You would think with all the people who have never heart about Jesus, and those that have not accepted Him as their savior that there is SOMETHING we could be doing. 

My prayer is this.  Lord, please let me always be present in each breath.  Let me never again wish my life away.  Please give me boldness to use whatever gifts you have blessed me with to reach out to people.  I don’t know exactly what all Your will is for me but I pray that I am always in the center of Your will. 

I ask these things in Jesus’ Name,

Amen

God Grant Me Resolve

My church has been taking the study “Experiencing God” by H. and R. Blackaby and C.King for 11 weeks now.  On this week God has convicted me.  God gave me a feeling, an overwhelming feeling that I was neglecting Him and what He had told me to do.  And I was.  Evidence- today I did the whole weeks worth of homework for this study.  It is not designed to be done like that.  I was told by my pastor not to do it that way at the beginning of this study.  Tonight is class night, so I had to get caught up.  If I can quote a bible verse used in this weeks study, let me tell you how it was reaffirmed by God to me that I was purposefully lost. “Do not love the world or anything in the world.  f anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For everything in the world-the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and boasting of what he has and does-comes not from the Father but from the world.” ~1 John 2:15-16.

Yesterday God told me just this.  I was putting my want for more money even though He has provided well for me, to come between us.  If not for this study, I might have not gotten this affirmation so clearly. 

Thank you God.  Thank you God.

Lost by choice

It isn’t very often that we say in life that we have gotten lost by choice.  But I can say that at this moment.  I have come to the realization that I have taken focus off of God and put it into trying to earn extra money.  I know that my relationship with Him has suffered for over a month now.  I give Him lip service only.  I haven’t yet found a good balance between work and God.  So if I can’t I feel like I need to slack on the money.  Maybe this venture isn’t what He intends for me.  It is written that “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much” in Luke 16:10.  I feel God has given me tasks to do and I have put them in second or sometimes even last place to try to get my business going.  I have not been honest with what he’s given me.  I thank Him for his light bulb moment that He sent me today.  I will begin to put him first again.