Are you listening?
Is God leading your life? Are you leading your life? Or, are you in the middle?
How can you be in the middle of the two? You might be saying "Lord, I want you to lead but I have trouble putting my trust in You."
What things do we place above Christ in our hearts?
You might be like me. When God calls me to do something I see a little bit of what is required and say, "Lord, I am too young to do this." God uses people in the church to remind me of all the young ones like Timothy and Jeremiah. God uses young people. We have to be willing to be used. I hear "old" people saying they are too old for the job, or they served their time, now it's someone else's turn. If you are still here then He is not finished with you. I hear middle aged people always saying, "I am to busy," or "There is not enough time to do God's work."
God calls you to be what you're not, so that you will become what He created you to be. It is a working process that we have not mastered. God places people in our lives who have been in similar situations: one, where they can share what God taught them, and two, for to encourage us that we can make it.
When God calls do you look to other people to see if it works for them? I know I have been guilty wanting to please the ones that I love. I know I have missed some great things by listening to them and not God. My heart hurts when I look at how I try to please others and not God. I know I can NEVER meet their mark or standards. Every time I miss it, my legs fall out from under me. I know that God does not have a "mark" for me to live by. He did not set a mark that I miss it every time. He wants me to seek Him and strive to be what He wants me to be. I believe in all my heart I should be a God pleaser and not a people pleaser. If I keep my eyes on Him and His ways then I know I will be pleasing Him.
For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ. (Gal. 1:10)
