...to being content.
I feel as if God is sifting me at this time in my life, refining me. He's been showing me all my misplaced priorities. I have to admit, I haven't been very content lately... and it's all related to making "usefulness" too high of a priority in my life.
You see, God doesn't care as much about how "useful" I am... He just wants me to be His. He wants to come first and then let everything else come out of that. He wants me to be content with Him alone.
I have dreams of being on the mission field, completely dependent on God, seeing God transfrom lives, relying wholly on Him. And I'm discouraged because here I am, still at home, not in the world. Maybe, one of the reasons I want to go to the mission field is because I think I will feel "useful" to God there. But this motive needs to be uprooted immediately. God can use me anywhere, not just the mission field. I don't have to feel "useful" to be used by God. He doesn't want that to have value over knowing Him anyways.
[The secret to being content is to give everything to Christ, not to be useful, but to be His.]
I feel as if God is sifting me at this time in my life, refining me. He's been showing me all my misplaced priorities. I have to admit, I haven't been very content lately... and it's all related to making "usefulness" too high of a priority in my life.
You see, God doesn't care as much about how "useful" I am... He just wants me to be His. He wants to come first and then let everything else come out of that. He wants me to be content with Him alone.
I have dreams of being on the mission field, completely dependent on God, seeing God transfrom lives, relying wholly on Him. And I'm discouraged because here I am, still at home, not in the world. Maybe, one of the reasons I want to go to the mission field is because I think I will feel "useful" to God there. But this motive needs to be uprooted immediately. God can use me anywhere, not just the mission field. I don't have to feel "useful" to be used by God. He doesn't want that to have value over knowing Him anyways.
[The secret to being content is to give everything to Christ, not to be useful, but to be His.]
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