In
order to fulfill God’s will for your life, you’ll have to deal with what other
people want you to be. Your boss wants you to be more productive. Your health
club wants you to be fitter. Your credit card company wants you to be deeper in
debt. It seems like everybody has an agenda for you, and, if you spend your
life trying to meet their expectations, you’ll never be free. Sometimes loving
people means having to disappoint them. Seeking to become the person others
want you to be is a shallow way to live. Nobody can tell you exactly how to
change, because only God knows. Even you can’t tell yourself how to change,
because you didn’t create yourself. To love someone is to desire and work
toward their becoming the best possible version of themselves. And the one
person in the entire universe who’s qualified to do this is God. Unlike people,
God has no hidden agenda or unmet needs that He’s hoping you can help Him with.
He knows what the best version of you looks like. He delights in the very idea
of it, and is already working to bring it to fruition in your life. The Bible
says, ‘…In all things God works for the good of those who love Him…’ (Romans
8:28 NIV). That means God is at work every moment to help you become His best
version of you. And you’ll only be truly free when you make up your mind to be
happy about being the person God meant you to be—the one He’s working on every
day. (UCB; http://www.ucb.co.uk/word-for-today.html)
Wednesday 18 March 2015
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