I enjoy life, I really do. I enjoy it to the point that I feel like I am capable to do almost anything if I put my mind to it, and that has been true to a lot of the passion and interests that I have developed throughout the years. I enjoy them to the point that given them up may very cause me to feel insecure at times.
But I realized that all my passions, interests and skills are gifts from God and the blessings that comes from it is more than what anyone can validate. So as I am reminded that all good things come from God, I am willing to sacrifice them back to Him because He owns every part of me. As Job describes how naked he comes and naked he leaves, so will God give and take and at the and of it all, God is still praised.
I am reminded in a loving and humbled way that I have been given a unique gift of the way I think and feel things. This in turn leads me to experience life in ways that is not necessarily how everyone else enjoy or experience it. Even as I had the pleasure to spend time with a close friend of mine yesterday as we talked about our lives and it affirms God's sovereignty in all that is happening. Nothing, and I mean nothing is left unnoticed by God, and He honors those who wants to stay faithful even when life may seem not enjoyable at times.
My security is not found in my skills, my talents, my experiences, even though it has been adventurous, it is also not in the people around me, the education I have obtained, the praises of people, or the promises of the future. But in who He is.
My joy then is not found so much in the pleasures of what life can give but so much more in the endurance and strengthening to live faithfully. Experiencing this has been my greatest motivation for life.
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him...
2 Chronicles 16:9
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