Direct My Path, Father. - Spiritual Wisdom

Sep. 15, 2006 - Spiritual Wisdom

This week I've been meditating on Colossians 1. It's a section of scripture that's chock full of encouragement and strength I need. I've been focusing on verses

10-12 where it talks about living a life worthy of the Lord and pleasing Him in EVERY WAY. It goes on to say that we should bear fruit in EVERY good work, GROW in the knowledge of God, and be STRENGTHENED with His power so that we might have great ENDURANCE and PATIENCE and can JOYFULLY give thanks to the Father.

These verses are so powerful! So often I go through my day and admittingly I don't give thought to how I am pleasing the Lord in EVERY WAY. This week I have been really trying to dwell on this and bring my daily focus back to pleasing Him throughout my day. So often I focus on "trying" to be there for my husband and children and "trying" to meet their needs, but usually it gets turned around so quickly into my giving up and focusing back on myself and what I'm not getting out of it. I've found this week that when my focus is on God in EVERYTHING I do then I am so much more enabled by God to focus on my family and love them the way He wants me to. As I serve them and meet their needs, I am really serving God and He allows me to truly be JOYFUL about it.

I have by no means been perfect this week, but boy it seems that it has really made my life a little easier when this simple principle was realized! So often I find myself banging my head against the wall trying to do things "my way" when it is so much easier to just follow God and the path He has laid out for me. I am so stubborn sometimes!!

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