Why would a man check out from life being content to live day to day going through the motions of living? Why for that matter would a woman check out? Why would a person choose to live life in discontentment and with a hardened heart than to live life the way God designed, fully alive? God I don't understand. Can a woman whose husband has checked out of life and maybe the marriage, still live a life fully and wonderfully alive? Can she find a way to do that? Can you Father fulfill a woman's heart to be fully alive when her husband is walking dead? Lord show me...teach me, so I can share this with the women in my life.
Lord it appears that the first thing I must do to live life fully alive is to be sure I do not have a hardened heart. Lord I ask you to reveal anything that might hinder me from walking moment by moment each day with you. Is there some area in my life that is not pleasing to you? Father I will take a few minutes to let you speak to my heart.....yes Lord, I hear you. I agree Father and nail that area of my life you just revealed to me to the cross. Thank you Father for forgiving me when you died for me. I trust you Lord to work in my life to direct me away from that area and to help me turn away from it. Lord thank you for speaking to me so that my heart stays tender towards your voice.
The second way to live fully alive is to read God's Word each day. I know Father that you speak to me through your Word. In 1 Corinthians 2 it says's I can know your mind through the Holy Spirit revelation to me. WOW! To think I can know the mind of God is mind boggling to say the least. So let me get this in my thought process, I can know God's will for my life? If I read His Word He will reveal to me His plans for me? So by reading the Bible, I can walk in His will for me because I will be hearing Him speak to me? As I understand this, the answers are a whopping and resounding, YES!
As I come to terms with living fully alive there seems to be a process. First I must have a tender heart through agreeing with God when I do something that is not pleasing to Him and acknowledge and receive His forgiveness which He already paid for when He died for me on the cross. Next, I hear the Holy Spirit speak to me the mind of God by reading His Word which in turn offers me the opportunity to walk with God in fellowship moment by moment with the result of a fully alive life.
Okay..that seems easy enough. I can do that!
It seems to me the reward is worth the cost. I like rewards! It also seems to me it is a choice to walk in this manner as opposed to walking checked out of life with a hardened heart.
Why would I not choose life? Life lived fully alive is my choice. I want all that God has for me, nothing less. What is it you want in life?
Lord it appears that the first thing I must do to live life fully alive is to be sure I do not have a hardened heart. Lord I ask you to reveal anything that might hinder me from walking moment by moment each day with you. Is there some area in my life that is not pleasing to you? Father I will take a few minutes to let you speak to my heart.....yes Lord, I hear you. I agree Father and nail that area of my life you just revealed to me to the cross. Thank you Father for forgiving me when you died for me. I trust you Lord to work in my life to direct me away from that area and to help me turn away from it. Lord thank you for speaking to me so that my heart stays tender towards your voice.
The second way to live fully alive is to read God's Word each day. I know Father that you speak to me through your Word. In 1 Corinthians 2 it says's I can know your mind through the Holy Spirit revelation to me. WOW! To think I can know the mind of God is mind boggling to say the least. So let me get this in my thought process, I can know God's will for my life? If I read His Word He will reveal to me His plans for me? So by reading the Bible, I can walk in His will for me because I will be hearing Him speak to me? As I understand this, the answers are a whopping and resounding, YES!
As I come to terms with living fully alive there seems to be a process. First I must have a tender heart through agreeing with God when I do something that is not pleasing to Him and acknowledge and receive His forgiveness which He already paid for when He died for me on the cross. Next, I hear the Holy Spirit speak to me the mind of God by reading His Word which in turn offers me the opportunity to walk with God in fellowship moment by moment with the result of a fully alive life.
Okay..that seems easy enough. I can do that!
It seems to me the reward is worth the cost. I like rewards! It also seems to me it is a choice to walk in this manner as opposed to walking checked out of life with a hardened heart.
Why would I not choose life? Life lived fully alive is my choice. I want all that God has for me, nothing less. What is it you want in life?
