The World of "I"

Dear Friend,

There is so much I have planned....
I have decided....
I have made up my mind....
I am ready....
I....
I....
I............

When did THIS become the reaction?

When did THIS become what I think and live by?

I.
I.
I.

I sit here in a (rather comfy) chair at Starbucks and reflect on where I went wrong.  Where I went from "THY will be done" to "MY will be done".

How easy that was.  That shift.  Thy to My.  How easy!

How hard it is.  To shift yet again.  From My to Thy....

I am not a bad person.

SURE! I have made my fair share (and that means PLENTY) of mistakes! After all, I'm human!

The crazy thing is...Christ does not expect me to be PERFECT but he sure asks me to reflect who he is.

Reflect.

That's a funny word....but what does that mean?

How do I reflect a man who walked this earth blameless and perfect??? How do I reenact a life that literally saved mine from a life in hell??

Reflecting who Christ is simply means living a life where I live in a way that is GOD-HONORING and GLORIFYING to who He is.

Simply....that is a whole lot easier said than done.

So then my question that I did not want to answer for the longest time....Am I doing that?

My answer?...

Absolutely not.

That is the reality of my situation.

So today here is my decision....

Living a life of "MY" is great and I will tell you why....because I get to call the shots and I get to dictate where I am going...

Or so I think....

The reality of what I am facing is that I actually am not living a life of "MY".  I am simply just not living a life that is GOD-HONORING and GLORIFYING to who He is and, in my opinion, that is worse.  That is not living according to "THY will be done".

Here is my CHOICE...decisions are HARD and they will never get easier (trust me I wish this were not the case)...

But I can make that choice to live and REFLECT in a way that allows my decisions to be made in the "THY" mindset and not the "MY" mindset.

**THIS IS NOT AN EASY TASK AND IT IS NOT A SIMPLE SWITCH TO BE FLIPPED**

But, although hard, it is something that I am deciding to change...

You hear that?

DECIDING

Christ does not demand this he asks this.  Is that not amazing?

We are not demanded to love him yet he manages to say "I love you so much that I am asking you to seek me and love me back."

He is asking us to walk the "THY" life.

Today is the day that I change my mindset.

MY ====> THY

You know how earlier I said that living the MY life is great?? Well here is the fine print..

                                      "It is great BUT.....

It provides no peace.  No unconditional love.  No God who literally sent His son to die for me....

It only provides a list of "me" and "I" and that is not a way to live.

Today I choose to live in the THY mindset and it brings me peace in knowing I am sitting in my Maker's hands and he is ready for me and loves me with a love that I will never fully be able to comprehend.

-JoJo