I wish I could take credit for this, but I can't -- it just kind of inspired me a lot. Try to read it one sentence at a time, think about it, apply it to where you are, and don't you dare read it like it's a forwarded email that you skip over and say "my, that was inspiring." Oh, and everything I'm writing here is directed at myself as well, because if I don't write it down I'll forget and never use it.
"Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Consider the lilies. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first day and last day of your life. Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshiping what's right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Blaze a new trail. Criticize by creating. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don't try to be who you're not. Be yourself. Laugh at yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away.
Chase the lion."
The underlying point for me is this -- God is not supposed to be part of your life. When the reality hits you of what can be accomplished through his power and presence completely consuming every aspect of your life, you'll run after the impossible like there's no tomorrow. Your thoughts will be continually directed toward him. You'll start developing that communion with him that makes every free moment a prayer. You'll dream crazy things and chase them with no other encouragement than the fact that God has called you to do them. You'll believe and you'll inspire and you'll be passionate about the possibilities. You won't shut up about the most unbelievable thing that has ever happened to you -- God chose to use you.
Or you can keep living your life and assume that in a few weeks/months/years, when things slow down, when you aren't so busy trying to _______?_______ , you'll pursue God's heart and let him work through you. Right now it's just inconvenient. Right now you're still working on reading your Bible more, God wants you to be reading 4 chapters a day before he'll speak to you or have any kind of relationship with you. God doesn't use people who are at THIS point in their life. You're not committed enough, you're not wise enough, you don't have it all together, you screw up a lot.
Quit making excuses.
"We ourselves are to be, today perhaps more than at any other time in history, evidence to all of God's unmerited grace and of the hope that is inspired by the cross."
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