Living with Intent
I walk about day by day, doing the same routine and usually feeling quite tired of it. Sometimes I think to myself, ‘This isn’t how my life should be’ and I know that it really isn’t. Not that I shouldn’t be ‘Here’ in my situation, but ‘here’ in this mindset of life. I shouldn’t be trying to get through the week just so that I can get some actual rest on the weekend, I shouldn’t be just letting my days pass by and not ‘living’ for something, I should be living more for God and that means living with intent.
I listen to a lot of people’s problems, I hear them with an open mind and try to give them some hope, I try to remind or let them know that God is there, that things can get better; but they need to be active; they need to be intentional; to not give up, and I need to do the same.
Life is full of problems and the world likes to make them seem far worse than they are, it likes to push us until we break while acting like our friend, but God doesn’t teach us what the world teaches; He doesn’t want us to look at our own lives with disgust and to be unsatisfied, He does not teach us that we need to waste our time on meaningless endeavors that we think will define us and make us set apart… We are already set apart, we just need to realize that we don’t need the world for what we crave and lack; we need The Father and His ways; He gives us the tools to combat the flaming arrows of this world and even from our own nature.
A way to think about it is this, If you get acid re-flux, You can take pills to combat the issue temporarily so you can keep eating the things your body is rejecting, slowly causing damage every time you forget to take you’re pill or if you take it too late; or you can change you’re diet completely, eat healthier and not only save your body from unnecessary damage and hardship, but also reap benefits of feeling better in general; however It’s not easy to give up something we like or are used too; even when we know what the benefits are; we rather go with the compromise and deal with the consequences later and then moan about those when they come about…
Why do we want to live this way? Well the sin of our nature makes us do illogical things, but I don’t want to live like that anymore; I don’t want the people I care for to live like that; and it’s hard to change. If I am going to start living with intent and be an example then I have to do things I don’t want to do, I’m going to have to force myself to do better; there will be benefits to this and as long as I choose to follow God and to changing my habits; my thinking and sacrificing my current way of living; I know if this is the way The Great Eternal wants me to go then He will help me. This is going to be a bumpy and hard road, but I will have to press forward if I want anything to change.
~QO
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