Living Intentionally!

 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

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