The Story of Your life

Do you ever wonder how your life is going to turn out?
Do you ever wonder what or who God will put in your path?
Do you ever intentionally think of things God wants to do with your life today?


"When I stand before God's throne, nothing hidden, nothing unknown. Dead to my body, my old life he took, God will hold my life in His book. When I will remember with trembling every single moment, every memory..."-Leeland


A song by Leeland really caused me to think about what I am intentionally doing on a daily basis to enrich my story... 
To enrich the life God has given me
To make Him known to those around me
To encourage those around me to deepen their love for God
To push others to question what this life is meant for and what you're doing to be an extension of Jesus.
To think of what I will have to offer to God when the story of my life has come to a close.




A reoccurring theme these days has been thinking about the day when I will come face to face with God.


I will have to look Jesus Christ straight in the face and testify to the life I led here on this Earth.
I will have to justify the amount of love I gave in His honor, 
the questions I ponder stretching my limits,
the words of Christ I spoke into the hearts of God's children,
the kind of person I was in my friendships, with my family, to every single stranger I passed by...


It's time for us to stop living like tomorrow is guaranteed, that God will always give us a new tomorrow with a second chance, because that is simply not the truth we are called to live.


Isaiah 57:2 says, "Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death."


Jesus Christ, the everlasting Light in this world, is the driving force that stretches our love to fill this world and to fulfill our lives.  Walking uprightly is the mission we are called to and what will fill the stories of every true believer in Christ.  Death is not something to fear because leading a life on this Earth is the mere journey to the real life awaiting us beyond the grave.


Our days are numbered here.
We must regain that sense of urgency to spread the Love of Christ every single day of this life God gives us.  We must remember the real reason we breathe, the reason we sing, the reason we continue on this journey.
At the throne of God, our story will be recounted.  Through the joy and the pain, I want to say that my passion, my desire, my love relied solely on Jesus Christ,
that my life was a reflection of Christ living inside of me.
I want it to sing of the salvation that I have been granted not by my own human strength, but by the greatest  power of Love and Mercy that brought me from a life of painful darkness and into the brightest light that heals my brokenness and leads me on.  


"You make known to me the path of life; 
in your presence there is fullness of joy; 
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." -Psalm 16:11

"Who am I and where am I going? 

What kind of fruit are my actions growing? 

He'll be staring at the pages of my life. 

Is my passion just to know You, am I living this life to show You? 

You are staring at the pages of my life.."-Leeland

God, you are the author of this life, yet sometimes we selfishly grab for ownership of being the ultimate author.  We scratch our dreams into the sand and watch as the storms wash them away.  You write the truth into our hearts, put the light in front of our eyes, show us how to live by faith.  At the end of this life, I pray to have pointed to God's heart instead of my own, I pray to be a living extension of Christ. In Jesus' name, Amen.