POINTING IN THE SAME DIRECTION
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Everyday of my life I have more challenges in staying true to the cause that Jesus Christ has given me, but I know the pressure is mounting because the little that I can do in Christ I remain faithful to do. Since I was a small boy, and from the beginning of my personal walk with God I have had a stubborn streak in me that does not allow me to just give in to the desires and the control of someone else. I believe now in my life that that God created that to be there so that I would not give up. I don't know how many people or how many times the enemy has put people in my pathway that would completely destroy the things that I have been set to do. That goes almost double for anything spiritually because the enemy knows that I will carry out without hesitation anything that God gives me to do.
It has been hard for me to accept my role in Christ in life because I have been distracted by the many gifts and things that God has allowed me to have in life. My soul has been the soul of a troubadour in that the arts have been the vehicle used to convey God's message more so than anything else. I have never considered myself a scholar of any kind, and yet in the last several years that role has been placed in my pathway as well. My knowledge comes directly from the power of God's Spirit that lives within me, and not at all from my own ability to reason. It comes from a life time of very pain filled experiences, and it allows me to understand situations as they come up to me. Without the painful things that I have endured in life I would not have a direct ability to understand the pain of others. I can sometimes relate to the pain of Paul as he wrote to the churches and poured out his soul before them to come again to a living God, and not be separated from one another.
All of these things that we deal with in life point the same direction in that our answer is through the grace and the love of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. That is the reason that we all (sooner or later) must come full circle in our commitment and understanding of what has transpired in our lives...it all points us back to Christ. The many mistakes I have made in life can now be used to understand the pain that comes from mistakes made. The victories that I have had are emotions that can be used to rejoice with others when they win a victory in life. If we will allow it God can use all that we are to point in the same direction...that direction is toward God the Father. That may even include the emotional pit you find yourself in right now from an illness or a hurt produced by this world. You are really designed to be so much more than you think that you are because all through your life...even the darkest parts of your life there are things now that you can use to draw a direct line for someone else to God. Just because we have experienced failure in our life does not mean that we are designed to fail. What it does mean ,however, is that we were designed to witness to this world of what God can do to turn a life from darkness to the light...defeat to victory, from a living death to the ultimate life we can have in Christ. For me now all that I have experienced is fair game to use for the glory of God...even my worst sins in this life can be used to allow my heart to understand and guide a heart that is lost and does not know where to turn. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Everyday of my life I have more challenges in staying true to the cause that Jesus Christ has given me, but I know the pressure is mounting because the little that I can do in Christ I remain faithful to do. Since I was a small boy, and from the beginning of my personal walk with God I have had a stubborn streak in me that does not allow me to just give in to the desires and the control of someone else. I believe now in my life that that God created that to be there so that I would not give up. I don't know how many people or how many times the enemy has put people in my pathway that would completely destroy the things that I have been set to do. That goes almost double for anything spiritually because the enemy knows that I will carry out without hesitation anything that God gives me to do.
It has been hard for me to accept my role in Christ in life because I have been distracted by the many gifts and things that God has allowed me to have in life. My soul has been the soul of a troubadour in that the arts have been the vehicle used to convey God's message more so than anything else. I have never considered myself a scholar of any kind, and yet in the last several years that role has been placed in my pathway as well. My knowledge comes directly from the power of God's Spirit that lives within me, and not at all from my own ability to reason. It comes from a life time of very pain filled experiences, and it allows me to understand situations as they come up to me. Without the painful things that I have endured in life I would not have a direct ability to understand the pain of others. I can sometimes relate to the pain of Paul as he wrote to the churches and poured out his soul before them to come again to a living God, and not be separated from one another.
All of these things that we deal with in life point the same direction in that our answer is through the grace and the love of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. That is the reason that we all (sooner or later) must come full circle in our commitment and understanding of what has transpired in our lives...it all points us back to Christ. The many mistakes I have made in life can now be used to understand the pain that comes from mistakes made. The victories that I have had are emotions that can be used to rejoice with others when they win a victory in life. If we will allow it God can use all that we are to point in the same direction...that direction is toward God the Father. That may even include the emotional pit you find yourself in right now from an illness or a hurt produced by this world. You are really designed to be so much more than you think that you are because all through your life...even the darkest parts of your life there are things now that you can use to draw a direct line for someone else to God. Just because we have experienced failure in our life does not mean that we are designed to fail. What it does mean ,however, is that we were designed to witness to this world of what God can do to turn a life from darkness to the light...defeat to victory, from a living death to the ultimate life we can have in Christ. For me now all that I have experienced is fair game to use for the glory of God...even my worst sins in this life can be used to allow my heart to understand and guide a heart that is lost and does not know where to turn. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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