My choices and your choices, no matter how small or personal, affects others. I think, sometimes we forget how much of an impact we actually make. Or worse, we deny responsibility.
Intentions are great, they're valid, they help you and the people around you understand you better but at the end of the day it's still the action that counts.
This year has been one of the toughest for me. My heart will forever be broken. But I continue to trust in the Lord. His mercies are new every morning. His love for me is great. And for Him and what He has given me, I will be thankful for forever also.
If worship is declaring the truth about who God is. And if being a living sacrifice is a form of worship. Then we have to ask ourselves:
Is my way of living and way of thinking and speaking declaring the truth about who God is?
I think we have to understand that the Bible doesn't tell us how we should feel, we can't control that.
But it does tell us how we should think and how we should process what we feel with the Word of God.
Those are two different things.
The enemy of the "best" isn't the "worst". The enemy is just "good." Good enough to settle.
I don't want to live just a good life. I don't want to settle. I want to live a FULL life. The kind that Jesus promised.