I loved all the personal emails yesterday. Obviously the struggle with “more” hit a nerve. Most of you were asking, how do you balance it all? Well, as a sojourner in this life with you – I’m still struggling and trying to figure that out. To get caught up on what we are referring to read THE BATTLE OF TWO PURPOSES and ECONOMY OF MORE PURPOSE.
Have you set some pretty high goals for yourself this 2012 year?
Have you put a plan in motion and ran with it these first 20 days of January?
Are you questioning what you are doing?
Are you wondering how God can fit into this new purpose of yours?
Right now, it may seem like a foggy, blurry picture. It feels like nothing is getting clear and you can’t figure out how to make it all work. Maybe you long for a vivid picture, a clear path and direction? Well, the good news is clarity will come as you seek to have and do it all, while you keep God as the thrill of your life. Is it easy, NO! But can it can be done? YES!
Psalm 1 of The Message starts off by saying in a nutshell (that means Alene’s paraphrase), “How well God likes you — because you don’t do this, and you don’t do that.” We can all list those things we don’t do, right? We list them easily, because we are proud we have conquered them. But then the scripture says,
What I felt God whispering to me was, “I have given you your strengths, desires, and purposes. I want you to live them out and learn to bring me the excellence of those gifts. I am so proud of you when you don’t get hung up on your goals, but yet still make time to THRILL TO ME AND MY WORD.”
Even in the midst of running after our “more” — goals, dreams, success, excellence — if we don’t remember to thrill to God’s word daily then we’ve missed our true purpose. And whatever our heart “thrills” to most of the time, becomes our God.
Are the goals to be more and reach more bad? NO, when we remember to keep God our ultimate number one thought and thrill! The more we thrill to His word the more vivid the path becomes.
What are you thrilling to this year?
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tears in my eyes.. I really needed to read this.. I know it so well and close.. but there is one areas where I hang my head and want more for myself…
thank you for speaking such truth.
T
Extremely uplifting:-) I am thrilled that my son, who is on the Autism Spectrum, wants him and I to write "His Story" together. He wants other children to know that being different is awesome. God has blessed me with such an amazing creature!
I absolutely love God's Word. Beautifully written Alene! Nothing thrills me more than to worship the Lord and be in His presence.
Have a blessed weekend!
Love,
Beth
I am thrilled that He keeps me longing for Him!
Your comments encourage me more and more to thrill to God's word MORE! You girls inspire. Thanks.
I love this! I have always been a big planner and goaler. I always have started the new year with a long list. This year God told me NO. My theme this year is Attention and day to day, week to week, month to month, He tells me what they next thing is. I am reading my Bible a different way this year (His plan), last week He started me to following The liturgy of the Hours ( it's wonderful ).
Both my husband and I feel this will be a year of big change for us…we can almost see it burgeoning in front of us, but we are waiting for God to reveal the details…attentively listening. And yes, The Word is one big way He is speaking to us.