Hello World,
It is amazing how kids change your life. I spoke with a 2 fellow colleague today. ALL of us started in private practice at the same time. We all help each other get things started. We were all pen pals and would encourage each other from a distance. We all had our first child and hit the ground running with our businesses. Then we had that second child....and boy are we all different. We are ALL on the same page. ALL of us have changed. We are so motherly. It is amazing how we were going to conquer the world and now our hearts have been conquered by our precious children. No other job in the world can compare.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The courage to Change...from Selfish to Godly
Change is very uncomfortable. It requires a lot of facing the truth about yourself, yourself in situations, yourself as a whole. But it is so necessary to becoming the person that God honor. I am not the same. I have never been so free in my whole life. NEVER!
Putting God first and others before yourself is godly, but to do it means changing your plans and accepting new plans based on the guidance of the Holy Spirit and not your own human spirit. I have begun to seek first the kingdom of God. All that is...is doing things the way that God wants and not the way of "The World". It is so different what God wants for us and what we want. All I did was to get up early and discover who I was through prayer and study of the Word for understanding. This is a continues process. It is one that I now realize is never over. I am going to have to stay connected. Not just connect until I get what I am praying for, but connect until Jesus comes back or calls me home to be with Him. My surrender was not met without tears and misunderstandings, but I know this sacrifice of my will for God's will serve me better in the long run (I hope that made sense).
In I Timothy, Paul gives instructions for the bishops and teachers deacons and women. I have read it and heard it a thousand and one times. But after reading it, I got the real motivation for my actions...All of them. My motives have been ALL wrong, even when I thought they were right at the start. I have begun to better see what God was trying to tell me. He was looking at my heart. I was looking at the outside, but he was looking at my heart. Praise God! He is so understanding and merciful. Okay, whew...so much to explain.
As I asked him to show me his love, he has not only shown me his love, but he showed me how to love and how to forgive...yes, me how to forgive.
As God has continued to show me his love, I have changing totally...No more selfishness.
Phillipians 2:3 Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of other as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. (NLT)
Putting God first and others before yourself is godly, but to do it means changing your plans and accepting new plans based on the guidance of the Holy Spirit and not your own human spirit. I have begun to seek first the kingdom of God. All that is...is doing things the way that God wants and not the way of "The World". It is so different what God wants for us and what we want. All I did was to get up early and discover who I was through prayer and study of the Word for understanding. This is a continues process. It is one that I now realize is never over. I am going to have to stay connected. Not just connect until I get what I am praying for, but connect until Jesus comes back or calls me home to be with Him. My surrender was not met without tears and misunderstandings, but I know this sacrifice of my will for God's will serve me better in the long run (I hope that made sense).
In I Timothy, Paul gives instructions for the bishops and teachers deacons and women. I have read it and heard it a thousand and one times. But after reading it, I got the real motivation for my actions...All of them. My motives have been ALL wrong, even when I thought they were right at the start. I have begun to better see what God was trying to tell me. He was looking at my heart. I was looking at the outside, but he was looking at my heart. Praise God! He is so understanding and merciful. Okay, whew...so much to explain.
As I asked him to show me his love, he has not only shown me his love, but he showed me how to love and how to forgive...yes, me how to forgive.
As God has continued to show me his love, I have changing totally...No more selfishness.
Phillipians 2:3 Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of other as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. (NLT)
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