Sunday, November 20, 2011
2012 Theme: iWill follow
Friday, November 11, 2011
Understanding our Father's Heart
Lately God has been challenging me with "the big question". What is God's will for my life? We spend our lives thinking and wondering what is the purpose He has for our life? Often times we pray, "Lord, your will be done in my life!" But behind those words, is there really selfishness and self-centeredness? The reality is that we really think everything is about us and the correct question should just be, "God what is your will?"Period.
Once I know His will, I can adjust my life to it. The focus must be God, not me.
John 5:19-20
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
When we truly know our Father we begin to be like Him and do what He does, this is how His desires become fulfilled before my own. I need to understand that everything He has done and will do is ultimately for the honor and glory of His name. Out of all of creation He chose and gave us the privilege of having His image and likeness; we were given the title of His children even when we didn't deserve it.
I cannot be so proud and ignorant to think that ALL that He has done is only simply to please us. It goes beyond that, life is not about me, its about Him. The Lord recently put this on my heart and it rocked my world, but I had to ask myself, if this whole time I was really living for His will alone...why does this rock me so much?
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
Matthew 16:25
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
As a missionary translator for Pura Vida Missions, I'm not sure whether the Lord will have me stay or call me out of my country, all I do know is the center of His will is what I want. Missions is not just another church ministry, it is the heart of the Father to rescue His lost children. So if this is His desire, than its mine too. I am grateful and indebted to Him, and I believe that when we can truly come to a place to wrap our heads around this we can start to understand our Father's heart.
~Mar
Once I know His will, I can adjust my life to it. The focus must be God, not me.
John 5:19-20
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
When we truly know our Father we begin to be like Him and do what He does, this is how His desires become fulfilled before my own. I need to understand that everything He has done and will do is ultimately for the honor and glory of His name. Out of all of creation He chose and gave us the privilege of having His image and likeness; we were given the title of His children even when we didn't deserve it.
I cannot be so proud and ignorant to think that ALL that He has done is only simply to please us. It goes beyond that, life is not about me, its about Him. The Lord recently put this on my heart and it rocked my world, but I had to ask myself, if this whole time I was really living for His will alone...why does this rock me so much?
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
Matthew 16:25
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
As a missionary translator for Pura Vida Missions, I'm not sure whether the Lord will have me stay or call me out of my country, all I do know is the center of His will is what I want. Missions is not just another church ministry, it is the heart of the Father to rescue His lost children. So if this is His desire, than its mine too. I am grateful and indebted to Him, and I believe that when we can truly come to a place to wrap our heads around this we can start to understand our Father's heart.
~Mar
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