2012

This blogging thing just doesn't work out well for me apparently.  My most recent post was last January!  Well, I tried.  I guess I will just post when I really have something intriguing or important to say.  By the looks of it this doesn't occur often.  So I guess this is what this is. 

I really wanted to post some goals for myself for 2012.  Maybe this way I will be held more accountable for them since I'm "putting them out there" in a way.   This weekend and today in church I prayed that God would reveal to me some areas in my life that I needed to give over to Him and goals I needed to set.  So here is what God spoke to me and what I wrote down:

• Less of me, more of God.
• It's not about comfort, it is about being obedient.
• Read through the bible.
• Memorize more scripture.
• Intentional journaling and prayer.
• Listen. More.
• Esteem Christ more than I esteem anything else in my life.
• Don't wrap yourself up in things that have no eternal significance.
• Have a teachable spirit.
• Slow down.  Make everything intentional.  Don't be careless, thoughtless, or hurried.   Be intentional.

The Lord wants to work in our lives.  He wants to speak to us.  We (I) are so busy and wrapped up in things that do not matter.  I often wonder why I get into such a tizzy about things.  Then I realize how silly and trivial the matters really are.  Then I forget and fall into another tizzy.  

Following Christ is bold.  It takes a bold move where you are deemed separate, different, not of the world.  In the world, not of the world.  This is one of the hardest things for me.  Please pray for me and these goals and that I will simply be a servant of Christ concerned with his kingdom and nothing more.  Oh and I need a lot of prayer.  Thanks :)