“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
- Proverbs 23:7
Someone asked me the other day, “What has God been telling you lately?” and I cannot stop thinking about it. Every time I do, I keep coming back to one thing. Time. How much of it I have spent on this Earth. What I have done and not done with that time. How much time do I have left here? There is no way a day is 24 hours long when you are home with a sick child in the middle of summer.
I have had many opportunities to think about how my time and God’s time differ, and even a few close calls to really bring that truth close to home, and it has made me dig deeper and question myself. Since grade school, I have cared so much about what other people thought that I naturally began to only see life through everyone else’s eyes but my own. Their time became more important to me than anything.
Their opinions on how I dressed, talked, what I talked about and could they trust me to keep a secret, ruled my consciousness. It didn’t take long before I let that guide my every move and trapped me into feeling like I could not turn off that setting in my brain.
I’ve asked God for discernment and he’s replied in a way that only He can, and it has startled me into a behavior I feel He has wanted for me for some time. To pause. To discern and to rest confidently that I can see what I’m supposed to see without looking through someone else’s eyes first.
I know this world is temporary and not my forever home. My time on this earth is valuable and I know God wants me to use it to better those around me, but He wants me to be better in the process.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, you have moved throughout our lives, supplying answers and direction when we need it most. Please continue to bring these truths to our consciousness, so that we may feel confident that we are living the life you want us to live while we are here.
Written By: Matt Morrison