Finding Peace in God Alone?
Life uncertainties brings life discontent. As I find myself living in the era of individualistic ways I can not help but to be captivated by them. I find myself looking for the prefection in almost everything mainly because I am looking to prefect my own life in some shape or form, looking to I dont know be the perfect weight, or have the perfect blend of style, and have the best husband that God provided. However, this type of thinking brings discontent. I am constantly on the look out for the perfect of the future that I am over looking the important perfect of now.
The perfect of now is God. Every day I make a choice if I want to arise and live my life for God's Glory or if I feel like living my life for Sarah Glory. And sadly enough Sarah Glory comes out on top or a close second to Gods Glory. My mom has a saying that she pens towards me which is "me, me, wonderful me!" and I used to laugh I thought it was the funniest thing Id ever heard, but there is definate truth to that statement.
Lord, I ask you to remove my discontent spirit, Lord I pray that I would meditate on your law and delight in it. Lord I ask that I delight in you, you alone and your graces that you have bestowed upon me, but Lord I also ask that I would go, go out and make your name, your love, your mercy, your unspeakable works that my mind will never comprehend here on earth Lord I pray that I will go out and tell others about you.
Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
Job 22:21
"Submit to God and be at peace with him;
in this way prosperity will come to you
The perfect of now is God. Every day I make a choice if I want to arise and live my life for God's Glory or if I feel like living my life for Sarah Glory. And sadly enough Sarah Glory comes out on top or a close second to Gods Glory. My mom has a saying that she pens towards me which is "me, me, wonderful me!" and I used to laugh I thought it was the funniest thing Id ever heard, but there is definate truth to that statement.
Lord, I ask you to remove my discontent spirit, Lord I pray that I would meditate on your law and delight in it. Lord I ask that I delight in you, you alone and your graces that you have bestowed upon me, but Lord I also ask that I would go, go out and make your name, your love, your mercy, your unspeakable works that my mind will never comprehend here on earth Lord I pray that I will go out and tell others about you.
Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
Job 22:21
"Submit to God and be at peace with him;
in this way prosperity will come to you
1 comment:
It's very hard to be conscious and thankful for the now. Mostly because it's hard to be patient. I find I have this same problem myself. It seems to take practice to say and think, "I'm just going to live the best I can today, and today is blessed because God is alive in my life!" and not expect anything more.
Theoretically if we did things that way, then any extra that God did for us would be an unexpected bonus. Sounds great, but it's that practice part that's tricky.
Thanks for leaving a note on my lj. It's good to see you around.
luv ya,
lis
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