To be honest, lately I've been distracted. I don't think my eyes have been set on heavenly things.
It's not like I've been focused on impure things or anything, but I just have lost my focus on God first. I think about my friends all the time and about work and earning as much money as possible. I focus on how I can find clothes for school next year and what music I can listen to that I enjoy singing along to. I want adventure, to travel and to taste different foods and to meet different people. I desire comfort and happiness. Art and beauty inspire me. But, as innocent as these things sound, they are distracting me from God! And I'm convicted.
The other day one of my classmates posted this verse reminder online:
"Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life" -John 6:27b
And then I worked on memorizing Philippians and repeated these words over and over again:
"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
And
"For our citizenship is in heaven..."
Right now, I don't think I am very heavenly minded.
In the story of the missionaries Frank and Marie Drown, they tell the story of a sick Indian woman who accepts Christ. Though her death is near, this woman tells everyone how at peace she is because she knows when she dies she will be in heaven. When that day finally comes, her family and friends gather around her to hear her last words. She doesn't scream or yell in terror but says peacefully "Shiir jeajai" which in her language means "I have arrived beautifully."
Lord, renew in me a Spirit that is more eternally minded. Let my heart's cry not be one of selfish happiness but to "arrive beautifully" before your throne, knowing that I have lived life each day thinking about the hope of being with You. Nothing on this earth can compare to that.
It's not like I've been focused on impure things or anything, but I just have lost my focus on God first. I think about my friends all the time and about work and earning as much money as possible. I focus on how I can find clothes for school next year and what music I can listen to that I enjoy singing along to. I want adventure, to travel and to taste different foods and to meet different people. I desire comfort and happiness. Art and beauty inspire me. But, as innocent as these things sound, they are distracting me from God! And I'm convicted.
The other day one of my classmates posted this verse reminder online:
"Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life" -John 6:27b
And then I worked on memorizing Philippians and repeated these words over and over again:
"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
And
"For our citizenship is in heaven..."
Right now, I don't think I am very heavenly minded.
In the story of the missionaries Frank and Marie Drown, they tell the story of a sick Indian woman who accepts Christ. Though her death is near, this woman tells everyone how at peace she is because she knows when she dies she will be in heaven. When that day finally comes, her family and friends gather around her to hear her last words. She doesn't scream or yell in terror but says peacefully "Shiir jeajai" which in her language means "I have arrived beautifully."
Lord, renew in me a Spirit that is more eternally minded. Let my heart's cry not be one of selfish happiness but to "arrive beautifully" before your throne, knowing that I have lived life each day thinking about the hope of being with You. Nothing on this earth can compare to that.
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