“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
20My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21Bind them always on your heart;
fasten them around your neck.
22When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
23For this command is a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and correction and instruction
are the way to life (6:20-23)
1Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit...
This one statement in Corinthians says so much...for to follow the way of love is to ultimately follow God. To also eagerly desire gifts of the spirit is to seek God's blessing on my own life and the gifts that he gives me rather than to be consumed with what I do not have. To stay in this frame of mind is really what this life is all about. God has pressed on my heart 3 things that are key to following him and my purpose on this earth...choose a God, own my talent and live my mission.JOURNAL
Everything in life, every day of life comes down to how I deal with these 3 choices. The reality is though that I was created to be an agent of God and if I do not choose him then I will choose something and if not God it will poison me and all those with whom I come in contact. By choosing God I will own the talent and spirit he gives me and I will use it in love and serving him and others. In doing this I will find a purpose and mission to give my life to completing. In this I will find a power and passion that will carry me through all the trials and tribulations of life.
28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.e 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’f 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’g There is no commandment greater than these.”
MARK 12:28-31
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