Time To Update Your Priorities

The clock is ticking! Everybody has a time limit on this earth because we live inside mortal bodies although our spirits are immortal. While we are on this earth we are given a number of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. We don't know how long we have but we are allotted a certain amount. What we do in that time is each person's own responsibility. Freedom and rights were purchased with blood and lives were sacrificed for us. If we do not use that time wisely we will be held accountable to the one who gave it to us, our Creator. Everyone is given a purpose no matter how small or insignificant we may feel. Our value and worth is not for others to judge, not even for us to judge, for the One who made us like unto His image is the only one who has the right to judge us. He is the One who formed us in our mother's wombs and then breathed life into us. He is the only One who has the right and the insight as to what our purpose was established to be.

Some people go all their lives never realizing their purpose. They see themselves as insignificant on this earth. That is sad and something I hope to change in my lifetime for myself and my family's lives. How do I expect to make a change like that? Through prayer and by leaving a legacy for my children and others with my choices and talents. God has called me to use my time wisely and as I said in another posting, I feel I have not reached my full potential. In fact, I was close to giving up because I lost sight of the goal. I have another chance before me as hope has been reignited in my heart.

This is the year, 2009, that I hope to set my feet on the pathway to reach my goals. This is the time, don't give up, reach for the stars. If you quiet yourself and turn to God, listen and seek Him while He may be found, He will show you your value and your purpose, everyone has one. Its hidden from us till we turn to God for insight. Without purpose and direction, people perish. We all have to have something to live for. Just like the movie, "Its a Wonderful Life", we sometimes are oblivious to the importance of our part we play in God's plan.

It is my prayer that we all would discover our purpose, our part to play, accept it and get about doing it because time is running out. There will come an end to things as we know it. Whether it is our own untimely death, simply meaning time ran out before we achieved our purpose, or Jesus returned too quickly and we were not ready. Be ready friend, don't wait until it is too late to make the right choice. Make a decision in your heart to trust God, your Creator, the Almighty Living God and accept the sacrifice that He made in giving His only Son as an eternal sacrifice for you to have right standing with God and to know Him personally yourself. Yes, you can intimately know the God of this universe. He had a plan because He knew that mankind would fall so He sacrificed the One born for a purpose, to die for us all in our place because somebody had pay for sin. John 3:16 makes it very plain.

I am committing this year to re-establish my priorities to fulfill my destiny and stop wasting time. In order to do this and still have a "normal" life, it requires a plan and a commitment. I have hope in that God awakened me this year and gave me direction. You'll have to seek Him for your own direction because only He knows what it is and what you'll have to sacrifice to get there but it is possible to get there. This is our time, let's not waste it.

Revival of a Spirit

I use to love to read everything spiritual, listen to tapes, read books and Bibles, go to church every time the doors were open. I raised my kids this way and though I didn’t have much I was happier in my spirit being about God’s work than I am now. Right now I feel very shallow and almost empty. I feel like my life is full of empty and meaningless things. I’m busy playing or living my cozy little life here on this earth. I have forgotten my home planet so to speak. I have forgotten my first love. I have forgotten my calling and purpose on this earth, which is so very temporal. I have forgotten my destiny and my direction. I feel like I’m drugged up all the time or intoxicated by the pleasures and cares of this world – this life currently on earth. I don’t really feel alive anymore. I feel like I’m missing something. I have everything I ever wanted but I miss church activities. I miss the good old days of church but what I really miss is church involvement and personal growth. Evangelism and reaching the lost, praying for people, encouraging them in the Lord…..this was living but now I’m just caught up in a bubble of getting everything I want and all these “things” simply distract me from my real reason for living.

Finally, I have the thrill of seeing my children walking with God, especially my daughter who is surpassing me and I’m so happy for her. Finally all those years of prayer and now I am getting to see it fulfilled. She is alive in Christ and excited to be learning and growing. I on the other hand feel dried up and as though I’m dying. The only thing I want that I really cannot seem to have is my husband saved, spirit filled and hungrily walking after Christ Jesus. I’ve lost hope of my dream for a Christian husband. That is the only thing I have yet to receive. Now more than ever I am concerned because our finances are under attack, my health is under attack and my life seems meaningless – of no value or worth.

Please God, please help me. Please ignite the ember inside me. Wake me from this numbing dazed mental state and renew a right spirit within me. Revive me O God, Speak to me and help me to put into action that which you are showing me.