180 Things To Think And Pray About

180 Things To Think and Pray About.

Your whole life you search always for “something” not knowing what it is or why you feel you need to find it. You know that there is in some way, more to life than what you see. Well there is more and if you stop looking now, you are going to miss it.  There is God, and we have underestimated Him far too much for far too long. He has a plan for everything and we are to live exclusively in accordance to his plan.  The first step is to accept that there is nothing in this world that is ours, not our plans, not our relationships, not our successes and not even our worries. This is the first step because if we know that it all belongs to God, then we know we can give it all up. After you give it all up, by  putting your personal pursuits aside, you can now put God first and begin moving towards his perfect plan for your life.  The second step is to live totally in the will of God. There are only these two steps. Nothing more and nothing less. Just these two steps.  However, both steps are incredibly beyond us all that it takes a person a lifetime to merely scratch the surface.

Though it seems easy to simply acknowledge that God owns everything, I find most Christians are always trying to hold on to something because it truly is a difficult task to give it all to God. One will never know what it is like to give it up until they experience God asking them to surrender something that they love. But God doesn’t ask for it all in one request. He asks for it piece by piece, day by day, year after year, after year. God knows we aren’t ready for everything on our day of salvation. So He walks us through the process personally.  Often times many Christians even reach a stoping point years into their relationship with God because He has finally asked them to give something up that they feel they can’t let go of.  But also, there are some Christians who grow in leaps and bounds because they have fallin so deeply in love with God that they are just simply too afraid to miss out on anything God wants to do for them in their lives. God designed us to want things, have things and enjoy things. He wants His children to have all the blessings of life. When I say things, I speak in a general sense that “things” may be friendships, stuff, activities, and many other experiences like the love for baseball or the thrill of reading a good book or seeing a good movie. There’s nothing wrong in living in the abundance of this world. But God is trying to show us that there is more to our existance than what the world can give us.