Built on the Rock

I don’t need to write a thing.  Check out this post and then check your own heartbeat for those Christ is calling us to love:

http://thebishop.voxtropolis.com/2006/03/22/my-new-friend-dylan/#more-33

I follow along pretty regularly with the Oswald Chamber’s ‘My Utmost for His Highest’ devotional.  You can find it at http://www.rbc.org/utmost/

I particularly loved this one today:

The Servant’s Primary Goal

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We make it our aim . . . to be well pleasing to Him
—2 Corinthians 5:9

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We make it our aim. . . .” It requires a conscious decision and effort to keep our primary goal constantly in front of us. It means holding ourselves to the highest priority year in and year out; not making our first priority to win souls, or to establish churches, or to have revivals, but seeking only “to be well pleasing to Him.” It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

Any goal we have that diverts us even to the slightest degree from the central goal of being “approved to God” ( 2 Timothy 2:15 ) may result in our rejection from further service for Him. When you discern where the goal leads, you will understand why it is so necessary to keep “looking unto Jesus” ( Hebrews 12:2 ). Paul spoke of the importance of controlling his own body so that it would not take him in the wrong direction. He said, “I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest . . . I myself should become disqualified” ( 1 Corinthians 9:27 ).

I must learn to relate everything to the primary goal, maintaining it without interruption. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how lofty it may sound?

That’s it.  I have no good reason for not writing a little more often.

 Actually…maybe I do. 

I am going through a process right now that I have only described as this…. I’m going in knowing who I was….I’m emerging on the other side as the somebody God created me to be.

It’s a day to day thing that old layers are being peeled away…I’m having to deal with some yukky stuff, and some really great stuff…all at the same time.

It’s freeing, it’s scary, it’s about as intense of a God-search as I’ve ever been on in my life.

So…if you’re reading this…say a little prayer for me.  I’m on day 21, with 19 more to go.