OCTOBER 5, 2018

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” 
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

ISAIAH 31-33

 13The Lord says:

“These people come near to me with their mouth

and honor me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me.

Their worship of me

is based on merely human rules they have been taught. (29:13)

PHILIPPIANS 1

3I thank my God every time I remember you. 4In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

JOURNAL 

To live is to do. Love is active, it ultimately involves action. Living life well ultimately is dependent on knowing God and following him, wherever he leads. That is a process, God understands that because he created me. He understands I have flaws and hangups and many times just screw life up. Yet just like with my own children or my students or players. I'm more interested in the journey and the ultimate destination than I am the outcome of today.  Yet today is part of the journey, it matters, but only in context of the bigger picture.

Many times that is hard to balance...well it really is impossible to perfectly balance. That's why God is a God of grace. Yet a God that still pulls us to life and closer to him and in so doing we grow closer to understanding him, ourselves and the bigger purpose of today. That bigger perspective gives me the confidence to live today without fret or worry. It gives me the freedom to love and live fully without reservation and it gives me the hope and peace of knowing that I am part of something so much bigger than me, but of which I do play a part.

 9Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

GALATIANS 6:9