Can anything compete with God? I mean nothing is bigger, stronger, wiser, more powerful than God right? God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. ONE. The trinity. The ultimate. Nothing can conquer God. Nothing at all.
Yet there are things in our lives that compete with God...and WIN. Not because God can't overcome them, but because we allow them to take precedence over Him in our lives. It happens all the time. Even to wonderful, faithful, Christian people. It happens to me.
What is competing with God in your life? Is it your career? Is it the "love of your life"? Your home, your car, your family, your friends? Money? What is it that takes up most of the space in your thoughts throughout your day? Gas prices? Ha!
God wants to be everything to you. I hear people who constantly talk about this or that thing ALL the time. What you spend the most time doing, the most time thinking about, and the most time talking about really reveals what takes the highest position in your life. What we talk about most is very revealing. From the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. What is it that you talk most about? Yourself? Your girlfriend? Your job? Your kid? Food? Your body? What is it?
I know we cannot be fully functioning human beings if we do not speak of anything other than God. I know we have to think about accounting if that is our job. We have to be focused when helping our children with schoolwork. We have to eat, sleep, and work. BUT we all know what I am truly talking about. We are designed to be in relationship with God. FULLY. Daily. Without ceasing and without demoting Him when something else catches our fancy. If some of my girlfriends talked about Jesus the way they do about their boyfriends (ahhh, new love...hey, I've been that way too) then thousands of lost souls would come to Christ! Why are so many other things taking God's place in our lives? No one is immune to this. Certainly not me.
I am in love. Deeply. God is my life source. My life line. My life. I want to reflect that in my words, my actions, my behaviors, in the activities I choose to do or the ones I choose to eliminate. I want to choose Him over all else. I want Him to never be jealous of anything else in my life that may seem to take precedence.
Who/what does my life reflect that I love most? What does your life reflect as your BIGGEST love??? Something to think about.
3 comments:
From my vantage point "up here in the front row," it is CLEAR where your priorities are; The Trinity, Gracyn, your family, your friends and co-workers, people you meet, and people, people, people. Your just like Jesus in that sense, and it makes me admire you.
Proud dad is absolutely correct!!! Your priorities are CRYSTAL clear from my view "here in the second row" as well. I highly respect and admire you and you are an inspiration, most certainly to me, and I know to others too.
I don't know where you found the sub-heading under CARLOTTA'S PLACE at the top of this page, but the thought is soooooo true, and IF women understood the implications for their lives, they would NEVER allow anyone except a Godly man into their lives or their children's lives. I know, not enough Godly men to go around, but you understand that value is usually defined by limited supply. supply.
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