I WILL

What do you do when your head is full of different ideas,,,
so many choices to make...
too many paths that one person can take?

What do you do when everything sounds like it will be the best thing in the world...
sounds like if you don't do this you will regret it forever...
sounds like God's calling on my life?

I just wish God would place a huge flashing billboard over the right path...
the right idea...
the right way...
the right job...
the right city...
the right person...
the right answer.

I believe in choices. We make choices. Yes God is all knowing, he knows what choice we made yesterday, what choice we made today and what choice we will make tomorrow, but we still have choices to make. There are so many choices. I want to make the best one, the one God has set before me to fulfill HIS will for my life. I want to be used by Him in incredible ways, in people's lives, in the world, at home. I want to join in with my friends ideas of building schools in Africa, in starting a youth center in England, in having a summer Ranch camp somewhere in Montana. I want to come up with my own amazing ideas to further the kingdom of heaven. I want to be involved in a church. I want to bring one person to Christ, I want to bring the whole world to Christ. I want to take the gospel to a people who have never heard it before. I want to bring Bible's to people who live where it is illegal to even speak the name of Jesus. I want to risk my life for God. He gave his son, what shouldn't i want to do for that?

There are so many things I want to do for God...what does he want me to do for Him?

But if I am living for God, what isn't done for Him? If my life is centered around Him, I am always a part of His plan, I am always following in His steps, listening to His voice, and following His will.

Why doesn't it always feel like that then?

Why, sometimes, does it feel like I'm a tiny little boat on a great big sea full of snapping turtles, killer sharks, and jelly fish just waiting to gobble me up? Then in a forest, set on fire, smoking me out, burning my heals as I run for life towards the Lord only to find He is still just over the next hill....just over the next hill...just over the next hill.

If I am going to live my life for God I better expect the sharks and jelly fish, I better expect the fire to be hot, to burn and to consume! But I KNOW it will never consume me! God is on my side, he has me hedged in on all sides. He is guiding, has been guiding me and will always be guiding me! I MUST rely on HIM! Always and forever.

Nothing more, nothing less.

I will pray...I will listen...I will read the Bible, discern what it has to speak to me. God will show me, in little pieces, the plan he has for me, and I will do my best to follow it. There will be times where I will get lost, where I will stray off the path set before me, where I will see a short cut that I think looks better, looks easier, more tantalizing than the one I am on, but even when I do wander off, when I do get lost, God will still be with me, will still be there speaking quietly into my ear telling me how to find His path again.

I WILL make the best choice, the one God has set before me to fulfill HIS will for my life. I WILL be used by Him in incredible ways, in people's lives, in the world, at home. I WILL join in with my friend's ideas of building schools in Africa, in starting a youth center in England, in having a summer Ranch camp somewhere in Montana. I WILL come up with my own amazing ideas to further the kingdom of heaven. I WILL be involved in a church. I WILL bring one person to Christ, I WILL TRY to bring the whole world to Christ. I WILL take the gospel to a people who have never heard it before. I WILL bring Bible's to people who live where it is illegal to even speak the name of Jesus. I WILL risk my life for God.

And I will be the best Christ follower I can be. The best Child of the one true God I can be. The best Christian I can be!!!