“And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants.” -Jeremiah 32:39
My family is notorious for setting out on a Saturday evening for dinner with no real idea about where we are going. We usually wind up driving around town, passing restaurant after restaurant giving reasons why we don’t want this and don’t want that. In a nutshell we forget our purpose; TO EAT! We spend more time whining about what we want and don’t want and eventually end up settling for something that we could have just made at home a lot cheaper! Sunday night as I was leaving church I passed by a young lady wearing a rather bright t-shirt. Now this wasn’t anything unusual but this particular shirt caught my attention with two very simple words written in white lettering across the front: LIVE INTENTIONALLY. Initially I didn’t think much of it but then I caught myself looking back and reading it again: Live Intentionally. What did it mean? Better yet, what did it mean to me? I mean, I know what the word “intentionally” means but just for giggles I went home and googled it. Google is convenient as it gives you definitions, synonyms etc. So I looked at the synonyms; purposely, deliberately, on purpose, by design, consciously, willfully, wantonly. And then it struck me how meaningful and powerful those two simple words are to all of us who proclaim Christ as Lord and Savior; Live Intentionally. To me it meant, quit walking around with your head in the clouds. Quit pretending like you’re not sure what you should be doing. Stop acting as if the answer is going to fall in your lap one day. We often sit around as “closet Christians”. We see people who need prayer. We talk to people that don’t know Christ. But we walk around as if we don’t know what we should be doing about it or we decide to leave the heavy lifting for someone else to do. God has given us instruction: Live according to His word. Worship Him. Love one another. Love your neighbor as yourself. Praise Him. Thank Him. Call on Him. Do this for your own good and for the good of your descendants. And do these things deliberately. Do these things consciously. Do these things willfully. Simply put: LIVE INTENTIONALLY!
Good for you Stuff 