Call me crazy...
What a weekend! I was able to hang out with my friend Crystal, from ASP, on Saturday night--and that was awesome! It was so great to see the Lord's work in her life, and to catch up with a good friend after 6 months.
I'm not freaking out as much about seeing my former best-friend (see previous post) as I was a couple of days ago. I know that this is not a coincidence, and I know that the Lord will prepare us for this meeting--at least we both have a month to get ready.
I have begun to prepare for camp this week--for my Bible study and the devotions I will lead, for the girls with whom I will be spending the week...and I am excited! While in prayer the other day, God gave me the best idea for a "theme" to carry throughout the week in my devotionals: "Crazy." This goes along with the theme for the entire camp, which is living for God 100%, all or nothing.
How does this correlate? My theme is actually a song by MercyMe. It appears to be based on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. This song has been running through my mind a lot in the past week, and it is causing me to rethink my own life and how I've been living. It's time to make some changes.
Crazy by MercyMe
Lately everything that I have been reading has pointed me in the direction of realizing what really is important in life, and what is really worth living for. As my Monday night Bible study group has been reading through Ecclesiastes, we have noticed that there is one central lesson in the entire book: If God is not glorified in your life or in what you are doing, WHAT'S THE POINT? Solomon sums everything up in this verse: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." (Ecc. 12:13)
Like the song says, "it would be crazy to choose this world over eternity." To me that doesn't just mean the afterlife...it means everything in our present lives as well.
It has just become very clear to me that I need to live 100% for God...I don't know what that will look like practically speaking...but I know that unless God is a part of everything that I do, say, think, etc., then it is all meaningless. Like Solomon, I am realizing that all the work that we do, everything we gain, in the end it is all meaningless unless it is for the Kingdom of God.
Am I crazy? Perhaps. But this is how I want to live, and already I have felt more fulfilled, more content, and more prepared than ever before to face whatever is ahead.
I'm not freaking out as much about seeing my former best-friend (see previous post) as I was a couple of days ago. I know that this is not a coincidence, and I know that the Lord will prepare us for this meeting--at least we both have a month to get ready.
I have begun to prepare for camp this week--for my Bible study and the devotions I will lead, for the girls with whom I will be spending the week...and I am excited! While in prayer the other day, God gave me the best idea for a "theme" to carry throughout the week in my devotionals: "Crazy." This goes along with the theme for the entire camp, which is living for God 100%, all or nothing.
How does this correlate? My theme is actually a song by MercyMe. It appears to be based on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. This song has been running through my mind a lot in the past week, and it is causing me to rethink my own life and how I've been living. It's time to make some changes.
Crazy by MercyMe
Why I would I spend my life longing
for the day that it would end?
Why would I spend my time pointing to another man?
Isn’t that crazy?
How can I find hope in dying, with promises unseen?
How can I learn your way is better
than everything I’m taught to be?
Isn’t that crazy?
I have not been called to the wisdom of this world
But to a God who's calling out to me.
And even though the world may think
I'm losing touch with reality,
It would be crazy to choose this world over eternity!
And if I boast let me boast of filthy rags made clean;
And if I glory let me glory in my Savior's suffering.
Isn’t that crazy?
And as I live this daily life I trust you for everything;
And I will only take a step when I feel You leading me.
Isn’t that crazy?
Lately everything that I have been reading has pointed me in the direction of realizing what really is important in life, and what is really worth living for. As my Monday night Bible study group has been reading through Ecclesiastes, we have noticed that there is one central lesson in the entire book: If God is not glorified in your life or in what you are doing, WHAT'S THE POINT? Solomon sums everything up in this verse: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." (Ecc. 12:13)
Like the song says, "it would be crazy to choose this world over eternity." To me that doesn't just mean the afterlife...it means everything in our present lives as well.
It has just become very clear to me that I need to live 100% for God...I don't know what that will look like practically speaking...but I know that unless God is a part of everything that I do, say, think, etc., then it is all meaningless. Like Solomon, I am realizing that all the work that we do, everything we gain, in the end it is all meaningless unless it is for the Kingdom of God.
Am I crazy? Perhaps. But this is how I want to live, and already I have felt more fulfilled, more content, and more prepared than ever before to face whatever is ahead.
"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."
--Colossians 3:3-4
posted by Lesa at 6/01/2004 10:11:00 AM
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