So I have been kinda feeling like I should work through the Purpose Driven Life book again. It was the book Pastor Joe gave me to do, a few years ago, right after I was baptized and I was asking him what do I do now? How do I continue to grow, I wanted to have quiet time but didn't know where in the bible to read or how to get started... I started into the book back then and got about 1/2 way through it, (then I got into a womens study at church or something and it got put down.) Then a couple years later Amanda and I both did the book, not really together but tried to keep each other accountable. That time I got about 3/4 of the way through it.
Each time I have gotten so much out of it, and lately it just kinda keeps popping in my head that I should dig that book out again. But instead I got out a different book and started it this morning and it just didn't seem to be what i needed...then I was flipping through an old journal and read an entry I had written that started out: If we only truely understood that life on Earth is preparation for eternity, how would we act differently? It's crazy how the most important things aren't usually the most urgent so they are the easiest to set aside. Like I want to spend time with God this morning but I set it aside (with plans to do it later) because the dishes need to be done right now! And I had wrote about how life should be all about letting God use me for His purposes, yet my life seems to be driven by other things like approval from certain people around me and material things, and even by centering my whole life around my kids. When actually if I was living my life totally and completely for God that would be the very best thing I could do for my kids. So after reading that journal entry I thought, I wonder what book I was reading when I wrote that, (and of course I hadn't written that down.) but it seemed to be something I could really relate to again. Then it popped into my head again, maybe it was from "The Purpose Driven Life"? So I finally got up and found the book on the back of my book shelf and imagine this... that was the first chapter of "The Purpose Driven Life"!!!
Why does it take me so many little thoughts and prompts and then finally a big ole shove before I actually listen to God??? So I am gonna read through "The Purpose Driven Life" book again. (Maybe I will actually get to the very end of the book this time!). I am hoping studying this book will get me headed back in the right direction. That I will start focusing more on giving everything to God, instead of stressing and worrying about things. And that I won't be so quick to toss aside the truely important things for the not so important things that seem so urgent!
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