In life we have desires, intentions and actions. Many people say that talk is cheap but i think its a little more pricey then we tend to think. Never belittle desires, never belittle intentions, these are a must! It shows that we want more for ourselves and for who we choose to be everyday. Yes there is a time you need more then the want of change, but we must never belittle the desire and intention of it.
Eventually those intentions need to become actions, change is going to have to come into play. One day you are going to have to look at your life and say i have all these intentions and desires for myself that i need to and want to act on but what is holding me back? Eventually the question of do i love the thing that is holding me back more then i love God, or do i love God more. Its a hard question but one day you are going to have to look yourself in mirror and ask yourself just that. Galatians 1:10 it says Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Ok i am going to just put this out there, people suck at life. We judge just as much as we blink but the truth of the matter is that what we think is pointless, we only answer to one. One day you are going to have to face you maker and i don't want him to say, you loved, money more then me, you loved people more then me, you love sex more then me, you loved fun more then me, or you loved things more then me. I want him to look at me and say your love for my flourished through you everyday.
I find that when i choose to go my path in life rather then Gods things in my life tend to fall apart, maybe right away things work out but in the long run it tends to go to crap. God stops being my focus and my prayer life becomes less and less. The great thing is though when i choose Gods way its might be hard at first but it is always worth it. In the book i am reading call, "The Me I Wanna Be," it but it like this...
“The truth is, a life of freedom and joy is right now. My main job is to remain connected with God. When my primary focus is to remain present with him, everything else has a way of falling into place. When my primary focus becomes anything else, my inner vitality suffers, and I become a lesser version of myself.”
I think in other words God gives us a choice, a choice of instant satisfaction or a longing joy that can never be broken. God says i might not give you the things you want, but I will give you the things you need trust in me.
Is that scaring to think about, trusting God. Becoming more of what God intends you to be, does that thought make you uncomfortable? WELL GOOD! stop being comfortable and let lose, give yourself and opportunity to show Jesus that you trust him and in doing this people will see you and you will show them God through your actions. Benefitting others with your life is the whole purpose to your faith.
In 1 Peter 1:6-9 it say So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy. 9 The reward for trusting him will be the salvation of your souls.
If you need some comfort here it is, Joy is coming your way when you trust God through the good bad and ugly. The greatest thing is that no matter what happens in trusting him you win, you get the ultimate goal. You trust God you get salvation and through trusting him this can benefit others salvation as well. In other words everything could go wrong but you still win, you get eternal life with the one who made you. Granted God wants you to be happy and i doubt everything would go wrong.
This is a process all of it but in time something amazing happens, we earnestly seek to be in his presence and our intentions become Gods intentions and His desires becomes our desires. Our actions begin to show Jesus and his love. We stop having to make hard choices and feel like we are giving up something. There comes a time where we ask ourselves is this "thing" going to benefit my faith or hinder it. When this happens decisions come easier and our faith begins to flourish. Things that use to matter don't anymore and things we use to want so badly seem well worthless to us. Eventually you love nothing more than you love God and in that moment you realize the true meaning of something.....Grace.
