THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEM RIGHT TO MEN
Proverbs 14:12 Eco's God's wisdom about doing things our own way..."there is a way that seems right to men, but in the end it leads to death". Trusting in what we think we know has often lead us into traps in this world...traps that have been very deadly.
I grew up craving relationships because while I thought of my parents in their years of marriage as being a goal for myself I also knew there was something missing, or hidden that I did not know about them. I was well into my adult years before I began to understand the depth of the sin nature they both shared, and I could not understand why God would choose me to try to dig out of the muck that was left. I spent many years and many relationships in trying to find out what I was doing...who I was meant to be and how badly I wanted it. Along the way I have made many mistakes with people.
The things that God keeps bringing back to my mind is the drive that He placed within me to never give up seeking Him no matter what had happened. Over the years and throughout time I continued to die in parts of my life, but I never realized until I started to deal with the addictions I had grown up with to behaviors and things in my life that needed to be surgically removed from me by the Spirit of God just how serious God was about my death to the influence of anything in this world.
I can honestly say that even in the last 5 years of my life I have learned much more about what it takes to simply walk in Christ without my own goals or drives to get me off track from God sending me somewhere or doing something. At the same time I have lost many people in my life who I should have been closest to if I were to use my own wisdom, and I would have been right to the overwhelming majority of men, but it was not God's plan for me...and that is why I could not stay in one place. Each one of us have our very own pathway that we must take in the Spirit of God, and along the way we will connect to many people. Some of these will be strong relationships, but ones that will change over time. Those may change all through your life with or without your consent, but along the way there will always continue to be a question that is asked of you...how far are you willing to go?
In this age that is a question that I believe God is asking each of us today. Are we willing to crawl out of the conventional box to serve God in our lives? Are we really willing to place all of our so called wealth into God's hands...and by that I don't just mean money, but our wisdom and the talents that we have in service to the cause of Christ within us? The time has come and continues when we are challenged as to how much we are willing to sacrifice of who we think we are to the complete control of God's Holy Spirit. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
I grew up craving relationships because while I thought of my parents in their years of marriage as being a goal for myself I also knew there was something missing, or hidden that I did not know about them. I was well into my adult years before I began to understand the depth of the sin nature they both shared, and I could not understand why God would choose me to try to dig out of the muck that was left. I spent many years and many relationships in trying to find out what I was doing...who I was meant to be and how badly I wanted it. Along the way I have made many mistakes with people.
The things that God keeps bringing back to my mind is the drive that He placed within me to never give up seeking Him no matter what had happened. Over the years and throughout time I continued to die in parts of my life, but I never realized until I started to deal with the addictions I had grown up with to behaviors and things in my life that needed to be surgically removed from me by the Spirit of God just how serious God was about my death to the influence of anything in this world.
I can honestly say that even in the last 5 years of my life I have learned much more about what it takes to simply walk in Christ without my own goals or drives to get me off track from God sending me somewhere or doing something. At the same time I have lost many people in my life who I should have been closest to if I were to use my own wisdom, and I would have been right to the overwhelming majority of men, but it was not God's plan for me...and that is why I could not stay in one place. Each one of us have our very own pathway that we must take in the Spirit of God, and along the way we will connect to many people. Some of these will be strong relationships, but ones that will change over time. Those may change all through your life with or without your consent, but along the way there will always continue to be a question that is asked of you...how far are you willing to go?
In this age that is a question that I believe God is asking each of us today. Are we willing to crawl out of the conventional box to serve God in our lives? Are we really willing to place all of our so called wealth into God's hands...and by that I don't just mean money, but our wisdom and the talents that we have in service to the cause of Christ within us? The time has come and continues when we are challenged as to how much we are willing to sacrifice of who we think we are to the complete control of God's Holy Spirit. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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