Awhile back I shared something I'd read in the "One Year Book of Hope" devotional. I am very slowly working through this book during my quiet times with Eliana and today read another convicting and encouraging entry. The title is called "Losing Your Life" and focuses on Jesus' saying that those who cling to their lives will lose them but those who give up their lives will gain them. This call on our lives is what she called "staggering" and then says the following... (bold added by me)
"Jesus calls us to abandon our own agendas, what we have deemed will please and fulfill us, so that we can embrace the kind of quality of life that only he gives. This is not about adding Jesus to the life we are living. This is about making Jesus our life. This is about putting our plans for our lives to death so that the abundant life he offers has room to take root and grow. And death is always painful. This is not an extreme brand of discipleship only for go-getters This is the call for everyone who chooses to be a follower of Jesus.
The problem is, we don't really believe that God's plan for our lives could be better than the one we've crafted. We don't believe we could be as fulfilled by the life he offers as we would be by the one we've planned. It takes a step of faith to believe God will supply satisfying life now and when we die."
May I choose to believe that God's plan for my life is truly better. May I not be so prideful to assume I know what's best. May I embrace God's call for my life as his disciple. This is in fact when I will gain my life back!
"Jesus calls us to abandon our own agendas, what we have deemed will please and fulfill us, so that we can embrace the kind of quality of life that only he gives. This is not about adding Jesus to the life we are living. This is about making Jesus our life. This is about putting our plans for our lives to death so that the abundant life he offers has room to take root and grow. And death is always painful. This is not an extreme brand of discipleship only for go-getters This is the call for everyone who chooses to be a follower of Jesus.
The problem is, we don't really believe that God's plan for our lives could be better than the one we've crafted. We don't believe we could be as fulfilled by the life he offers as we would be by the one we've planned. It takes a step of faith to believe God will supply satisfying life now and when we die."
May I choose to believe that God's plan for my life is truly better. May I not be so prideful to assume I know what's best. May I embrace God's call for my life as his disciple. This is in fact when I will gain my life back!
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