September 21, 2005
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The Purpose Driven Life
Day One
It's Not About Me
VERSE TO REMEMBER
Col 1:16b
"...All things were created through him and for him." (NET)
"...Everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him" (Msg)
QUESTION TO CONSIDER
In spite of all the advertising around me, how can I remind myself that life is really about living for God, not myself?
By beginning my day with Him in prayer, the word, or with the body. I do enjoy my mornings at breakfast with my wilderness brothers. While I may not talk much at 630AM I listen in take in what has to be shared among the brethren. Prayer and the Word are not always my early day focus and I think I need to at least place a little of both in to my morning routine. Not as a magic potion to give me a good day, but to make me being thinking about Him earlier and what he has for my life.
By integrating what I am learning from His word and allowing it to transform me into a creature more like Christ - I struggle with this one. Often I learn a truth through His word and trials, but then I do not actively try to live it out in my life by integrating it in to the fabric of my being. I mentally integrate it but pragmatically you may not know because it does not transform me and my agenda to His agenda. I just kind a move on with life leaving this truth and its meaning out in my life. Then begins the cycle again of having to learn the hard way what God tried the first, second, third, and Nth teen time to try to each me the easy way. But oh no! I like to be hit in the back of the head with experiences and tensions that break me to the point that I can do nothing but integrate God's truth into my life and allow it to transform me. I do wish I would learn more readily the first time I learn a truth. But God uses the hard school of knocks experience to teach me and to help others in the body who are slow learners like myself. Our trials aren't about us, but about what God wants to do through us for us and the body of Christ. Don't try to get out of the valley of death or around the trial allow God to lead and carry you through it so that you and others can experience the blessing of God in your lives.
Andrei Bitov once said "WITHOUT GOD LIFE MAKES NO SENSE." Without God in my life I see no point in life. We are only animals who ought to live like animals and allow our passions and appetites to dictate what we do in life. I want more than that I want God's purpose in my life directing every path I go down and every trial I climb. Thank you God for always being near even when I try to run far from you.
Godspeed,
Wesley
Comments (2)
It blows my mind to think that God created me for Him. God loves us so much and many times we blame God for all kinds of stuff that happens to us, and most of the time we have ourselves to blame because we didn't obey the Bible and do the right thing. Like we eat like pigs and wonder why we get fat and so forth.LOL.
Looks like you are taking on some serious work with this one, good luck. Thanks by the way for the audio, have listened to it three times and found it informative.
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