What
is your daily life like? You wake the children, love on them, send
them to school, pay some bills, go to work, pick up the kids, make
dinner, clean laundry, the occassional lunch with friends on the
weekends, an odd break away from the regular weekend and off to the
mountains or beach.
This all sounds just fine to many! A blessed life seems like the normal one where bills are paid and friends are welcome. Have you ever asked what God intended for His children? Is what I am living what He wants? What do the scriptures say on this account? Do we who live in the western world have it right? Have we discovered God's best for us......or are we playing it safe because we can afford to?
What would motivate you to live a life in the deep end with God...completely surrendered to His adventurous life? Maybe its a different motivation for different people or for men and women. I know that I didn't even ask myself the question of how I should live my life until the life-changing love of the Father crowded into my heart and inspired me to shift my thinking. That "life as normal" was man's invention, and not God's.
The Father never intended us to live in the "status quo" of daily life. He is not a safe or tame God. He is dangerous and wants us to live life on the edge; far from normal and traditional. Life should be an adventure, and we should fight the daily grind in order to keep the door open to the adventure of God's life!
Living inside the boundaries of someone else's ideals of normal life is bondage that keeps us from what God wants to bless us with and use us for. He has outrageous plans for us and we should rail against the average life in order to live abundantly.
This all sounds just fine to many! A blessed life seems like the normal one where bills are paid and friends are welcome. Have you ever asked what God intended for His children? Is what I am living what He wants? What do the scriptures say on this account? Do we who live in the western world have it right? Have we discovered God's best for us......or are we playing it safe because we can afford to?
What would motivate you to live a life in the deep end with God...completely surrendered to His adventurous life? Maybe its a different motivation for different people or for men and women. I know that I didn't even ask myself the question of how I should live my life until the life-changing love of the Father crowded into my heart and inspired me to shift my thinking. That "life as normal" was man's invention, and not God's.
The Father never intended us to live in the "status quo" of daily life. He is not a safe or tame God. He is dangerous and wants us to live life on the edge; far from normal and traditional. Life should be an adventure, and we should fight the daily grind in order to keep the door open to the adventure of God's life!
Living inside the boundaries of someone else's ideals of normal life is bondage that keeps us from what God wants to bless us with and use us for. He has outrageous plans for us and we should rail against the average life in order to live abundantly.
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