I came across this quote tonight.... It really resonated with me.
Wise lady that Eleanor Roosevelt!
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and
without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Lately I've been thinking of how far out of my Comfort Zone God is bringing me. . .. at first it was scarey...and it seems everyday the challenges are mounting....but there is something very freeing about hard times. Because for all of us.... usually when all is good, it is very easy to get laid back and routine in our relationships with God...right?
We go to Church...read our Bibles.... and Pray, But that deep personal relationship God longs to have with us usually doesn't happen until we need Him more than we need the world.
He just reminded me of the scripture in Romans 12:1-2
"And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
No one likes hard times...But we must admit we do love to be in a close relationship with our creator. There is a peace and comfort we can attain no other way than by being close to Him.
Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relationships we have. God has put a desire for relationship in every one of us, a desire He intended to be met with relationships with other people, but most of all, to be met by a relationship with Him, for both now and eternity.
Job 7:17-18 ~ What is man that You magnify him, and that You are concerned about him, that You examine him every morning and try him every moment?
Job states that God is concerned about us and watches us every day. That implies He cares about us. Why?
John tells us why in 1 John 1:3
. . . what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
He created us to fellowship with Him !
Everything falls into it's rightful place in our lives when we realize all we want and need is fellowship with God. And that all along that was all He ever wanted.....Fellowship with us!
And all we really want is to hear from Him!. . . . when we're following God's directions than we find ourselves right where God wants us, fulfilling His perfect will for our lives.
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