Like everyone, Im living life and life is not always easy. Its plan and mine often clash. My hearts desire is to please God. Thats the real me. Sometimes others and even myself would doubt that. Its something that I should not concern myself with. Its Gods perception of me that matters in the end. I take every day and I try to be a better man than I was in the past. And anything before today is the past. Thats the best I can do. I dont believe God expects more than that. He looks deep withen my heart and knows my motives. Im grateful of that reality. Its a saving grace for me I believe. I was reading a book for encouragement today, as I often do, along with Gods Word. Its called Killing Lions. John Eldredge makes commentary in it that inspires me. Its written toward men, but obviously can be applied by woman. I hope it helps others as it has me. (John) I was watching a remarkable documentary on the Dorobo hunters in Southern Kenya. Their bows simply arent strong enough to bring down big game, so they steal the kill of lions. In a stunning display of courage and cunning, they walk right up to a pride devouring a wildbeest; their unwavering confidence causes the lions to run off. In the next scene the men are roasting wildbeest flank over an open fire, talking and laughing. One of them says, But not everybody fights lions; some people are cowards. THAT my friend is the campfire you want to be at....the feast of the DARING. This thing called life is going to take courage, because fear is the number one reason men give up, sell out. It will take perseverance because nothing worth having in this life comes without some kind of a fight. It will take cunning because most men who-are-really-still-boys move into the world with a childish naïveté, ignore or run from the lions, fail to reach their dreams, and then blame the world or God when in fact they were simply insisting that life allow them to REMAIN freshmen forever. You have a number of lions to slay in this life. fear is one. Despair is another. Entitlement, a huge one,- the entitlement of adolescence-regardless of your age, is a third. Its like this for us all. Either you kill them or they eat you and your dreams for dinner. Courage, perseverance, cunning- thats HOW you kill lions, live that and you will have a story worth telling. And that, to the glory if God, not yourself. Smile
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:10:16 +0000