It is great how God always brings us the right things at the right time. Here lately I have felt like my focus has become a bit skewed. I have a burning desire to seek God's face and yet at every turn it seems I actively pursue something else. And yet again God gets put on the back burner. Then when I lie on my bed at night I finally allow that fire to come forth and my body is so weary from chasing so many other desires throughout the day that I quickly fall asleep even in the middle of praying. That is not quality time spent with the one my heart loves. I wouldn't expect to maintain a relationship with any human if I only took the time to be with them for about 10 minutes every night while I fell asleep. Why do I assume that is enough for God? He deserves so much more of me!
Today I was reading my friend JoAnna's Blog and she had decided to take up challenge presented to her from a blog called The Fight Spot. Basically the challenge is to set daily goals for maturity in God. I am always up for a challenge and I think this is a good way for me to honesty focus on living a life full of Christ each and everyday.
My three goals are:
1) Passionately pursue God in prayer, worship, and the word (meaning more than 10 minutes before I go to bed)
2) Show God's love to every child that walks through my classroom, especially the most difficult ones.
3)Make Christ the center of all my relationships especially in dating.
I honestly think this is going to be a great way to really look at every aspect of my life and truly see where I allow God to reign and where I try to shut Him out. Having daily goals will give me something concrete to examine in my life everyday.
Plus it will be handy having doing this with someone else. JoAnna can be there to keep me accountable. (Right JoAnna??)
1 comment:
Right-O!! That is actually very funny.... before I came and read your post, I saw the comment you left with your goals on my blog... and I replied that YOU could help ME be accountable!! :) Good thinkin', Kelly dear!
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