Roaring like a Lion!!!

Rawr!

I'm sooo pumped up right now!  I just gotta get it out!  This morning's message was such a confirmation to me.  The Lord has just been pouring in all week and today was just the triumphal clanging of the cymbal.

All week, I have been reminded to number my days.  I think this was especially stirred by Tony's near death experience.  I remembered those who have gone on and wondered if they left this world fulfilling their mission.  Everyone has a mission.  If your life did not have purpose, you would not have life.  I don't want to waste mine.  I don't want to get to the end and be grieving over my regrets.  I want to exhale my last breathe feeling accomplished. 

I've been reading a book about biblical wisdom that only served to drive home this idea.  I want to make wise choices, so why not rely on the One who is all knowing, the One who knows the end from the beginning and who will lead and guide me into my destiny through knowledge and discipline.

Today's message was titled "Digging Ditches."  In other words, GET BUSY!

See recently I've been so focused on the sin in my life, my imperfections, that I've forgotten the sin of omission.  You know, when you know the good things you should be doing and aren't.  This is sin and a huge travesty.

I've got dreams so big they almost swallow me whole.  There are seeds of a great destiny planted in everyone.  Sadly, very few ever reach their full potential.  For me, my downfalls are procrastination, fear of failure, believing the lies about myself and abilities, and indesicion.  Its easy to lay around despondent when your head is so full of crap.

Today, I will not neglect the day of small beginnings.  This blog here, is a small beginning for me.  It took faith for me to start spilling myself out, if only to a few readers.  If God is in it, He will use it to change others.  Maybe these few ideas and thoughts will spark something in another and have them grab hold of a piece of hope or encouragement.  Maybe, just maybe...

There are other little dreams inside us all, that I believe lead to bigger dreams if we stick with them.  Some people have been sitting on the fence so long you are about to be impaled by your own indescision.  DO SOMETHING!!  Yes, I'm screaming this to myself!!

Stop listening to that stupid audio in your head that says you can't.  You know, its so familiar.  You aren't smart enough to do that.  That will never work.  You think anybody is going to listen to you?  You can't go to school, you don't have the time.  Why are you here, nobody likes you?  Why are you even trying?  You know you are going to fall flat on your face.  You know, you should probably play it safe.

SHUT UP!!

I think we should all forget the former things and press on to what lies ahead.  Put your hand to the plow and get busy.  Start somewhere.  Listen to the whispers in your Spirit and act.  Sure there are times to wait on God, be patient and let things unfold as He would have them.  But how many different ways does He have to impress His will upon us?  Does He have to write a paragraph in the clouds before we will do simple acts of kindness and love without a hidden agenda?  So many of us want God to guide us, but He is not going to drag us like a dog on a leash that refuses walk.  Stop sitting on the side of the road, looking down at the murky ditchwater because life didn't work out the way you wanted it to.  Stand up, dust yourself off, and start walking again.  Pretty soon destiny will pull over and ask if you want a ride.