Last year before our 16 hour trip to Florida, we invested in a dvd system for my Tahoe and it has been a life-saver. At the time, only 2 of our girls were old enough to need headphones and so we only purchased 2. Now that Austin is old enough to want to watch too, most of the time it gets played through the car so that we ALL get to enjoy it...OH BOY! The movie they have been stuck on lately is The Croods. I have never seen whole movie, but I have got to listen to it several days in a row now. Well this one sentence jumped out at me and I can not seem to shake it. The teenage daughter is talking to her dad and says “That wasn’t living! That was just …. ‘not dying!’ There’s a difference.”
Ever since I heard that phrase, it keeps resonating in my spirit. Am I living, REALLY LIVING? or am I just not dying?
I feel like I am just not dying.
I WANT to live, really live, but I'm not. I catch myself living for tomorrow, next week, next year, but not today. I get caught up in the BIG PICTURE of my life that I don't live for what is going on right now.
I am reading the book, Experiencing God by Blackaby/King and it is talking about really living in God's will day by day. All of us ask these questions at some time in our life.. Why am I here? What is your will for my life? Where am I supposed to be? What am I supposed to be doing? But we wait...and wait..and wait..and let each day pass us by waiting to see the big picture. It's like we won't move until we see everything He wants us to do, God doesn't always work like that. So many times in the Bible, all He told His servants was to "Follow me". He didn't give them a map with directions and an itinerary. He simply said Come and they came.
John 14:6 " I am the way, the truth, and the life".
Matthew 6:33-34 " But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness , and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Sometimes we make things that are so simple, so complicated. To follow God's will for your life, all you have to do is take it one day at a time and listen to His voice. He will never mislead you. He knows where and when and who and why, but He won't always tell you, because then we take things in our hands and screw things up inevitably. Take the story of Abram; all He told him was "Get out of your country.. to a land I will show you". Would you go with that little direction? Or would you wait for months and years until you knew the whole plan before you moved?
God is All-Knowing, we aren't. And thank goodness for that! All He asks us to do is to trust Him and be obedient. He will take care of the rest if we let Him.
Philippians 2:13 "It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure".
This is my new daily prayer: Lord, I will do anything hat your kingdom requires of me. Wherever you want me to be, I'll go. Whatever the circumstances, I'm willing to follow. If you want to meet a need through my life, I am your servant; and I will do whatever is required.
God Bless,
Kristi
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