My
God saved me, and put me back together. If you heard my story, you would hear
of a God that is so amazing, and makes what has been broken, whole again. He
took me from a broken mess with so much hatred and anger, and turned me into a
complete person in Him. He took a child
who had been through something that a child should not have gone through, and
made her a new creation.
God wants me to
live my life to its fullest. He has this
amazing journey for me. He knows the
plans he has for me. They are plans to
prosper and not to harm me. They are
plans to give me hope and a future. (~Jeremiah 29:11, paraphrased)
Yet, sometimes I take a detour unto the
highway of my own way. I try and live
life on my own terms. On that detour, life seems so dull, and I ask myself is
there more to life than this. I become
complacent. Then the Lord will send a
song on the radio like “My Story” by Big Daddy Weave. It reminds me that God is redirecting me
back onto His journey for me.
God has done so much in each of your lives.
We owe it to God to live life intentionally.
Every day I have to intentionally live my life that I have been given by
God. God has a plan that He desperately
wants to reveal in my life.
It is easy to try and do it our way, or
just go through the motions. We work
really hard, and we are so tired –sometimes.
We flop down at the end of the day, and realize that not once that day
did we focus our eyes on God. “Life” got
in the way.
This becomes a habit day after day. We just go through the life on our own terms,
and then cry out to God. “Why is my life not where it should be?” We are so turned around that we don’t know
where we are. Sometimes we are too
stubborn to stop and ask for directions from God.
God wants more from us then going through
the motions. He wants us to live
intentionally. He wants us to have a
full life here on earth. There is a plan, and the roadmap for each of
us. We get a turn by turn direction, and
know our final destination.
So, how do we get to living intentionally? What does that look like?
And find out what pleases the Lord. ~Ephesians 5:10
That is it.
To live intentionally, we have to find out what pleases the Lord, and do
it. The best is yet to come, but we can
live a full and fulfilling life here on earth.
God has His plan for our lives if we are open to receive directions from
Him.
We have to be
intentional about it, though. It is an
every morning kind of decision. You
could even say that it is a moment by moment kind of decision. It is not something that is just going to
happen. God will have to be number One
in your life. He will show you the path
that He has designed for you.
It will take action on our part. It might even be uncomfortable for a little
while until we finally realize our lives are so much better because of it. God is our Roadmap on this journey of
life. If God is our Roadmap and Navigator
then our lives are going to rock!
Besides that we will get to where God wants us to go.
“Dear Lord, you have this amazing journey
planned for me. Yet, often I take the
detour of my own way. Sometimes, I get
so turned around that I am not sure where I am.
Thankfully, you are patient, and give me signs back to the correct road
you want me on. Every day, You have me
on this amazing journey. I pray that I
keep my eyes on You. Then I will be
living—intentionally. AMEN”
Laura Maxson