The invitations:
Yesterday at church the invitation was to reach out. Be God's light and salt to the earth. Become the aroma of God. Show Him and offer Him to everyone you come into contact with. Make new friends. Invite them to church. Love them like God loves you. Become a family. Grow your family. Support them. Be their friend. Embrace the differences. Lead them to Jesus. Show them hope. Reach out.
Today the invitation is to focus on God. Worship Him with all your heart. Take your eyes off of you and even others and completely give yourself over to the Lord. Make Him the center of your decisions. The center of your walking. The center of your learning. The center of your doing. He is the reason. The only reason. Simply give your heart, your whole heart over to Him who has made it whole. Worship Him. Praise Him. Thank Him. Love Him. Let nothing come between you and Him. He is all that matters. Keep your eyes lifted to Him.
Previously the invitation is to work. Complete school. Even go away from a place I've grown attached to. Leave my Christian family and form a new one. Do something completely different than what I planned. Build the business? Be a teacher? What about pharmacy? Or other science? Counselor? Social worker? No, that's not it. Follow Him and He'll guide me. Taking me away. But trusting Him with all I do. Go back to school. Focus on school. Focus on my relationship with Him. Be selfish with this time and grow closer to Him only. Focus on me. My growth. My time. My future. My present. School, work, church, volunteer. Got it.
The confusion:
What do you do when it seems like God is telling you 15 different things to do? You got school, work, family, friends, Him, others you don't know, people to reach to, pray for everyone. Where do you spend your time? How do you build bridges and friendships with people you don't know? How does it start? What can you do? Is there anything? What's most important? Feeling overwhelmed and yet at peace with your decisions. Being unsure of whether or not you're doing the correct thing. Is God talking to me or are these invitations for other people around me? It's confusing when you think too much.
The clarification:
It's not about what I can or cannot do. It's all about Jesus. So the second invitation is where I need to spending my time. Completely centered on Him. When all my focus is on loving Him, praising Him, thanking Him, everything else falls into place. I don't have to do anything. He uses me for whatever He wants and I allow Him to. No big deal. It's at this place that God's plans are fullfilled for me life. I listen to Him and follow Him and stress not on what I can do....because I can't do it without Him. So why not let Him do all the driving and give up the control I want so desperately? It's not my place to look at what I can do because it's about what He can do and He buildes the bridges and writes the conversations. I give myself fully to Him. Always to Him. Only to Him. Wow....He is sooooo good. I love Him!!!!
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