A new transition has put me in a new mindset. Finding myself out of a job, and with my sister doing Missions work in the Dominican Republic, I have a new resolve.
I'm reading some books & gaining insight which is shaping the opinion in me that I need to care. I need to care more than I've ever cared before; for my own health and well-being.
When put through life's challenges, I need to have the courage to stand behind my own convictions, my own beliefs, my principles. The people I've called friends in my youth are gone. All but Dave. It is here with one friend, a family who has their own trust issues and siblings struggling to find their way in a world stiffed by corporate greed, and misinformation.
Colossians 2: 6-15 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spiritst of the world, and not according to Christ.9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
My goal is to stand firm, to become a true and decisive man of God. As I read my devotionals, and tap into the Word of God, through my Bible, I know that in the past I have wavered. It is my hope that I can put together my own devotions and words, praise and perseverance towards the will of God. So that like Oswald Chambers, I may be renewed through understanding God's plan, and having his peace and grace cover me. Throughout my life I have often chose comfort over doing the right thing. I have chosen not to say something when I should have testified.
Job 34: 1-10 1 Then Elihu answered and said:
2 "Hear my words, you wise men,
and give ear to me, you who know;
3 for the ear tests words
as the palate tastes food.
4 Let us choose what is right;
let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 For Job has said, 'I am in the right,
and God has taken away my right;
6 in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
7 What man is like Job,
who drinks up scoffing like water,
8 who travels in company with evildoers
and walks with wicked men?
9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.'
When God has sought me out for challenging and worthwhile ways to glorify His name, many times I have rationalized why I should take the easy way out. Now that I am in my mid thirties, I want to find and build healthy relationships with good upstanding people. I aim to find a woman who is good and kind and beautiful to be my wife. Until, I do find her, I'll have to be careful in my dating life to seek out positive and uplifting interactions with women, so as to maintain an honorable and ethical sense of self. This is beneficial. It only because it will help me find people who love and respect God and people. The Journey ... I will take through written word and careful contemplation of the scriptures and Jesus' teachings.
I'll pour my heart out; struggle with ethics, and ponder how I can become a better man. You are welcome to join me via the comments section, by providing Biblical passages, or helpful advice along the way.
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