Well, 2016 kind of sneaked up on me. But here we are! Already four days into it!! My last post was about my goals for this year and so far we are still on that trajectory. But after yesterday's sermon I think I should add a few. Nothing like over-committing at beginning of the year.
Yesterday's sermon title was "Offering Our Gifts." We all have something to give even if we don't think we do. Cindy challenged us to give these five things:
1. Willingness- Are you willing to sacrifice? Take a chance? Make a change?
2. Questions- Give God the questions of the journey.
3. Perseverance- Are you willing to go through the hard parts without quitting?
4. Worship- Give God your heart all day every day.
5. What you have- Simply offer what we have to God as we have it.
Some of these are way easier than others. I have one million questions and I ask them constantly. Willingness I am working on. Someone once told me that if you trust the leadership you are under in the church (which I do) you should be willing to do whatever they would think is good for you to do. So I am working on that... Perseverance is hard; I like to quit when things get difficult and then come back to them later or not. Worship is easy on some levels and extremely difficult on others. I don't feel like expounding on that right now, perhaps in a future post. Giving God what I have seems like an odd concept to me mostly. Because what else would I give him. But when I think about it more, I realize the depth of it is to truly give him all of what I have. Let Him have access to my stuff, my time, my heart, my journey, my money, my all.
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