Friends, how are you doing? Can I pray for you in any way?
Lately, I have been hit in the heart with this question, ~ Chloe, how are you living? Then, I wonder what does the word living mean? Is it simply having breath in our lungs, walking in Jesus' steps because he has given us abundant life or because we serve a living God, or does life just a means to fill it up haphazardly? Does God encourage us to have a purpose in our life where instead of living haphazardly, we live with authenticity, intentionality and with a contagious love of God spreading like wildfire?
Billy Graham, who spoke at a conference said, " It is not about the days in your life, but the LIFE in your days." That emphasis on the life in our days really transforms your thinking, doesn't it? Life could refer to mental health, spiritual health, physical health and emotional health... or even how does the things that make up your life point back to your purpose in living? What is your purpose and is it living for Christ? Have you entangled your desires while labeling it as living for Christ, pushing for control in your timeline? I have done that, and my timeline was destroyed... it hurt, but no matter how lost I feel ~ Jesus blessed me by tearing my house down.
If the life in our days is so magnanimous to God, what are we filling it with?
Do we need to change anything to realign to the light of the Gospel so that we can become available to being agents for the Kingdom of God, right now? Is there anything that may hurt God's heart, or anything that hinders him from using you as his vehicle to share the good news ? Take inventory of your heart and mind... may God be pleased with our insides so that what comes out on the outside is holy and pleasing and bringing glory to His name. It is not a bad thing to need to start over, I was there this morning lol. Sometimes we get so lost, where one minute it was lusciously green all around and now we are meandering on a dirt road unsure how we arrived... but you open your eyes, wipe the tears, look up from your feet and see Jesus - arms wide open and ready to bring you home. I encourage whoever reads this to know wherever you are, fight to run home. Sometimes it is a fight to even open up the Bible or even to pray for someone in the parking lot... don't blink when God calls. I implore you to become available to God.
And if you are a person that is becoming someone out of obligation, I pray you find freedom from that way of life. I pray you live to experience and fully realize the glory of God through the truth. I pray you don't wait till death to really live well because it will be too late to see Christ. And for those who get caught up with the world's distractions, I pray you find freedom as well. Freedom to fully realize the beauty of Christ is always greater than anything this world offers. It never was a competition... And ask what voices you are listening to, who has access to penetrate your heart? Is it the automatic comparison that comes as a result of hours on social media, unhealthy relationships, the Word of God,... The truth that God speaks will build you up, speak the truth, destroy lies and grip of sin, promote love, unity, grace, mercy and faith in a God you cannot see. While the things of the world will fill that God shaped hole with lifeless things that lie to you about things you lack, who you are not and what must YOU do to get it. Ironically, the world convinces you that you must prove yourself, but God says just be still and have faith in what I will do in you; while God gives that rest and that faith in Christ.
What else is there but Christ? What are you living for? What does the life in your days point back to Christ?
Me, I am a girl who loves God deeply but have felt lost over the last 6 months. I have just spotted Jesus on that dirt road and am making my way home. Praise God for giving grace to come back home. Hoping, Praying and Celebrating in the waiting for the great things God is going to do in my life. Although, I have been terrified of running since I returned from basic military training with an awful shin splint injury... well I ran tonight. Well, PRAISE GOD because my pain was so low. I am excelling in school, but still unsure what I will do after graduation. I am learning that my purpose was never in becoming something, but was in Christ. Many more reasons to live with Christ as my oxygen every day, every hour, every minute and every second that I am alive. Although I am not there yet, I am gonna fight until all I see is my reflection in His eyes and stay there forevermore. Learning that I am a made up of very diverse things ~ an airman, overcame ADD, coordination difficulties and being bullied, someone who is skilled in self defense, a non-Korean praising God in a Korean church, and making my way through my bachelor's... but most of all a girl after God's own heart who loves making noise about God's goodness in our lives. Looking forward to see my story unravel before my eyes as I follow Jesus.
God keep "fighting and writing Your love in my story (Cade Thompson)." Have our hearts every step of the way virtual, with a mask, in-person, private or public- Be our King.
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