You will never be as happy being anything other than whom God called you to be.
You will never be as happy doing anything other than what God called you to do.
Stop trying to please your father and mother. Stop trying to please your spouse. Stop trying to please yourself. Please God.
Be simply and only what God calls you to be. Do simply and only what God calls you to do.
"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me...for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." -Jesus
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It can't be that easy - are you fooling us?
Simply put! Powerfully put! Now let us add the simple and power to our lives and live them simply and powerfully for the Kingdom of God! Blessings, June
After all, he is our Father in heaven. His Kingdom come. His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. If we could just stop trying to get to heaven and starting enjoying the heaven Christ brought to earth!
We can all do this by starting to live out God's will for us here and help bring about his will to this place. There would be less selfishness and more selflessness. There would be more peace and less war. There would be more laughter and less crying. This is God's will for this place and his will for all of us who belong to him. It's my wish for my own children. Why would God want less for his?
Thanks for allowing some of my off based humor. I know that God wants all of us to have more - more of everything and more than what we can imagine. I guess that is why they say "more than our eyes have ever seen" I expect God and Heaven to be more than I ever imagined and to walk around with my big mouth "wide open" saying you got to be kidding - for a long long time!
It appears that I have really been missing your good stuff over here in the past few weeks!
What you just said is something that I grappled with as a young Christian. It has gotten much easier over the years but I am still, at times, tossed and turned by the manipulations and desires of some of those that I love. I have to constantly tell myself that I am here for God's good pleasure, more than anyone elses and my prayer is that He would make His will loud and clear to me in every situation so that I don't follow the way of the world.
As for wanting my loved ones to stop trying to please me, I have felt that way for a long time. I always knew that my husband loved me, but I also felt that if he loved God more than he loved me that I would be better loved. God is the Master of love, amen? He created it! Carnal, human love is selfish and cannot begin to compare with the love of Christ that He has shed abroad in our hearts.
I feel that way with my children too. God loves me soooo much, that if my husband and children put Him first in everything, they will automatically be more loving toward me too. Thanks for a good word today, Theo, even if I did enter into it late!