THRIV3::{discipline.love.passion}

You never really know how much you value something until it’s taken away. God offers us blessings, but we must accept them, take them. If we don’t they are wasted, and sometimes lost.

I had sundays off for so long, and I’d wasted them. God has been calling me to take sundays back. He wasn’t saying I was bound by the law, but that by living in Him, I could follow it.

Today, I took them back.

Instead of being deceptive, I was honest and up front, and God provided.

I’m beginning to realize not to ignore Gods direction. Although the path is sometimes painful, His purpose will eventually be revealed if I’m faithful. In following Him, I’m gaining the wisdom I’ve been praying for.

Although the war has only begun, I press on focused on eternity with Him.

“but i’m not going to lie to you, it’ll cost you everything to follow him” - John L Cooper (skillet)

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39 (NASB)

Are you willing to give up everything to follow Him? I’d ask myself this question regularly. It was so easy to say, but could I truly live it?

Could I give everything to Him? My health, my family, my friends, my possesions, my job, my money; my life?

My definition of success would never fufill me, and would only offer me temporary happiness. My own pursuits left me empty and disappointed.

He took me in His arms, broken, and restored me. In Him, nothing was impossible. In losing my life, I would gain it.

I began to understand that His will was greater then anything I could every imagine, and would completely fufill me. That He was with me, and through Him I could stand against any enemy. In His strength I could find courage. In His love, I could be made whole.

Although the price is your life, the reward is eternity with Him.

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?
Matthew 16:26 (NIV)

that which is untold, that which is untasted
that which sustains, that which prolongs

sought and yet unclaimed
unsure and yet content

that which is known, that which perishes
that which is fallable, that which destroys

whose will, his or my own
whose cause do I seek
the path he leads

why, why, why
i ask, i cry, i pray

i question that which is unclear
i live with no regrets, and yet i come to him broken

in him,
rest, peace, shelter

in him,
my purpose

temptation, percecution, deception
belong to the father of lies

my flesh is weak, it longs for satisfaction
it begs to be fed

but my flaws speak of his glory, my condition of his mercy

he is greater then. he is