12.05.2007

"It Doesn't Matter What I Want"

It doesn’t matter what I want....

We often want things because God puts them on our heart, puts the desire there for good things, great things, big and small things. When it comes down to acting on this desire we often don’t want it anymore, we don’t want to do what we need to in order to achieve it. But that is living a life of doing only what we want to do versus what God wants us to do.

When something good is put on our heart…fed into our mind….no matter how difficult we must push forward to do it. See, when it gets tough our desire gets overwhelmed by fear…our insecurities and doubt…we often turn our back on that desire placed by God in us.

I believe the most important reason God puts good desires into our heart is the growth that will take place in us when pursuing it…whatever "it" is….and even more important is that we will have to rely upon God to push forward...


If God called us to only do things that we thought we could do then we wouldn't need Him, we wouldn't have to rely upon Him. Instead we must push forward and rely upon Him...not only do we learn a ton about ourselves in the journey but we strengthen our faith and relationship with Him.

God loves us no matter what and no matter what we do good or bad it doesn’t change that love…He doesn’t love anyone more then another…we are all His children but God doesn’t want us to stay the same….He is a God that expects growth.

The journey is more important to God then the destination sometimes. I think if we look at it this way then we will charge forward despite our hesitations…we won’t do what we want but we will do what God wants which is to persevere…stay the course..charge forward and become more of what God wants us to be.

The greatest blessings in life come to those who aren’t living for themselves and what they want but instead are servants first to Christ and then to others around them….when we serve Him and others, we get blessed beyond what we could of ever wanted or thought of.

It takes seeing the big picture…why are we on this earth?…for ourselves? Nope…a life focused on ourselves is a miserable life. Our culture constantly is pushing people towards focusing on our selves..God is constantly trying to focus His people off of themselves

We have to listen to Him to hear Him though...without listening we just call what culture hands us as normal and accept it as the way to live...never accept normal...go for abnormal

Who are you going to let win this battle, this war against your focus? Our culture or God?


1 comment:

  1. Isaac, this is great stuff! "Who are you going to let win this battle, this war against your focus? Our culture or God?" That and, "We have to listen to Him to hear him though...without listening we just call what culture hands us as normal and accept it as the way to live...never accept normal...go for abnormal" that along with everything about focusing on ourselves verses serving Christ and others is awesome. I'm encouraged by your thoughts, Isaac, and I'm thankful to have a brother like you in the Kingdom.

    I'm excited to check back and read more when you post it. I'll have to check out some of your older postings, too, sometime. I'll add you to my blogroll on my blogsite and also subscribe to your RSS. If you want to check it out, you can get to my site by clicking on my blogger ID here ("GuitFu"). It should have a link to my blog in my prof.

    I was encouraged and inspired by our conversation last week. We'll have to get together again and grab lunch next time I'm down there,

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