Everyone has a picture inside his head of who he wants to be and what he wants to accomplish.
Everyone has goals and dreams that propel him forward through the day-to-day challenges of life and inspire him to go forward when disappointments come.
But there comes a time in every life when it becomes apparent that the goals and dreams will not be realized, that the hopes one holds most dear are either beyond ones grasp or--if attained--are unable to satisfy.
When these disappointments come, when these failures are confronted, may we turn to the LIVING GOD who has a better plan for each of us than anything we can conjure for ourselves.
May HE help us to realize that our failures are a springboard to HIS work coming to fruition in us.
As long as we want what we want, we cannot see what HE wants for us.
As long as we strive toward attaining our own goals, we cannot reach for HIS.
When we stop living life for ourselves, when we stop pursuing what we think will make us happy and fulfilled--THEN--can we live for JESUS and pursue the things HE wants us to possess.
When we attain HIS gifts for us--hope, joy, peace, grace, mercy, love--we will know what it means to be free! We will know what it means to be released from bondage to the temporal and embraced by the treasure of the eternal.
As long as we want what we want, we cannot see what HE wants for us.
As long as we strive toward attaining our own goals, we cannot reach for HIS.
When we stop living life for ourselves, when we stop pursuing what we think will make us happy and fulfilled--THEN--can we live for JESUS and pursue the things HE wants us to possess.
When we attain HIS gifts for us--hope, joy, peace, grace, mercy, love--we will know what it means to be free! We will know what it means to be released from bondage to the temporal and embraced by the treasure of the eternal.
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