Daily Battles

Everyday I battle against competing desires and motivations.  Everyday, I am tempted to invest my time, money, and energies into those things with do not push me towards God.  Are all of those things wrong or sinful.  Absolutely not.  Many, if not all ,of them are not.  Yet, man of the things that compete for my attention have no value or influence in causing me to love God more.  If something does not cause me to love God more and desire to serve Him better, then why would I waste my time?  I ask this question, knowing the answer and even battle with myself over that.  I have come to the realization that I must begin everyday with committing to and praying for strength to put away, to sacrifice, to willingly give up all of those things which will not push me towards God today.  I want everything in my life to be pushing me towards a greater love and devotion to God and I want that to overflow to my family.  It is far to easy to justify my activities because they are not sinful or wrong.  Yet, If I want to have the zeal of Paul, the purpose of Christ, I must be willing to give up even those things which are not sinful in order to pursue a greater, more passionate life purpose of serving my Savior and my God.

Pray for me, would you?

What do I want?  How am I going about getting what I want?  What does God want?  Very revealing questions if you are honest.

If it doesn't matter on the day you die, it doesn't matter.