Lord in these days when I am so busy it seems that my life revolves around work and not around you. The net effect of that is that I become less sensitive to hearing your voice, heeding your guidance. My heart seems to get harder and less caring, I become 'me' centric and others are of less importance. It's as if the more I drift from God's love and influence in my life, I turn into myself, to my strength to fill the void.
The answer? I know the answer. Taking time out of the day for quiet communion with the Lord. Giving him the opportunity to minister to my soul. So easy to say, so difficult to achieve on a consistent basis.
I know from past experience that my strength is not sufficient to live a full satisfying life. Lord remind me that the Christian life needs you at the core, you as the focus, you as the power.
It's all about you and for you, but the wonderful thing about it is, that with the right focus, I am blessed, I am built up, I am enriched. You Lord do not need my company to be fulfilled but I on the other hand need you in my life for completeness as a human being, living as you designed me to live.
Finally ........................A thought for to-day
I'm really easy to get along with - once you people learn to see it MY way. (how often do we live with that frame of mind)?
Showing posts with label Loving God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loving God. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Monday, 23 February 2009
Fulfilment
The stress of life is a term that you hear about more and more. The news is full of doom and gloom, the global recession has everyone scurrying to batten down the hatches, to watch with fear as the world lurches from crisis to crisis. It is interesting to look back to old television programmes that painted a picture of utopia when the year 2000 and beyond came around.
We would have prosperity, robots would be doing most of our work, leisure time would be the norm and most disease would be eradicated.
The reality is that we need to work more to make ends meet, we have more worries than before and stress in work, stress at home impacts our lives every day.
People generally lack fulfilment in their lives. We tend to look to possessions as a key route to finding fulfilment. But if you are like me that fulfilled feeling lasts for only a fleeting moment. Power or positions of authority are another way to satisfy the thirst for fulfilment. Just look at the sad souls who enter shows like 'Pop Idol' or 'Americian Idol' and say that their lives are ruined when thay are rejected by the judges.
We were made by God for God. In that fact lies the path to complete fulfilment. I can only remember one catechism from my days of Sunday School, and that is the first one. The first question is "What is the chief end if man"? The answer is "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever".
I love the word ENJOY. We are to enjoy him forever, learning more and more of the facets of his nature as we journey through eternity with the Lord.
Fulfilment is found in loving relationships. Enjoying God's love would be a complete fulfilment, which can never be found in things I possess or the things that I have accomplished but in the person of Jesus Christ, knowing him, loving him and serving him. Without that focus life becomes meaningless.
Lord! protect our children from a society that teaches that life is about loving self and satisfying self. May they see that a fulfilled life is only possible in knowing, loving and enjoying God. Forever.
We would have prosperity, robots would be doing most of our work, leisure time would be the norm and most disease would be eradicated.
The reality is that we need to work more to make ends meet, we have more worries than before and stress in work, stress at home impacts our lives every day.
People generally lack fulfilment in their lives. We tend to look to possessions as a key route to finding fulfilment. But if you are like me that fulfilled feeling lasts for only a fleeting moment. Power or positions of authority are another way to satisfy the thirst for fulfilment. Just look at the sad souls who enter shows like 'Pop Idol' or 'Americian Idol' and say that their lives are ruined when thay are rejected by the judges.
We were made by God for God. In that fact lies the path to complete fulfilment. I can only remember one catechism from my days of Sunday School, and that is the first one. The first question is "What is the chief end if man"? The answer is "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever".
I love the word ENJOY. We are to enjoy him forever, learning more and more of the facets of his nature as we journey through eternity with the Lord.
Fulfilment is found in loving relationships. Enjoying God's love would be a complete fulfilment, which can never be found in things I possess or the things that I have accomplished but in the person of Jesus Christ, knowing him, loving him and serving him. Without that focus life becomes meaningless.
Lord! protect our children from a society that teaches that life is about loving self and satisfying self. May they see that a fulfilled life is only possible in knowing, loving and enjoying God. Forever.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Loving God
A couple of months ago I read that Saint Augustine when asked how to live the Christian life said. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and soul and mind and do what ever you like"! (or words to that effect.)
Wow! I thought, that cannot be right, what about all the RULES, what about the 10 COMMANDMENTS? Then the Lord put into my mind, that it is like loving your spouse, or the person that is closest to you in this life.
The bible talks about a husband and a wife becoming one flesh. In that loving union loving your 'mate' you WANT to please them and to do good things for them. Not for any personal gain but to make that other person happy. To bless them. So I believe our lives would become much more simpler if we just followed Saint Augustine's advice. Then our focus would be on blessing the Lord, through loving service, enjoying him forever.
Wow! I thought, that cannot be right, what about all the RULES, what about the 10 COMMANDMENTS? Then the Lord put into my mind, that it is like loving your spouse, or the person that is closest to you in this life.
The bible talks about a husband and a wife becoming one flesh. In that loving union loving your 'mate' you WANT to please them and to do good things for them. Not for any personal gain but to make that other person happy. To bless them. So I believe our lives would become much more simpler if we just followed Saint Augustine's advice. Then our focus would be on blessing the Lord, through loving service, enjoying him forever.
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