A Life Part 2

As I continue asking God everyday to let His way for my life shine through I find it difficult to listen to what God wants. I find that my mind keeps going on about all the things I have to do in one day that it almost seems that I can't stop thinking. The hardest part for me is just letting go and listening.

Prayer is a two way thing much like a conversation that you would have with your friend at coffee. Except God wants to be so much more then that with you. Its hard to imagine myself sitting down with God and having a cup of coffee with Him or just even having a conversation with Him. Most of the time I'm the one doing all the talking and keep asking for things and forget to just listen. I think I'm afraid to listen because I might not want to do what He asks me or I'm not going to want to face what He's telling me to give over to Him. However I forget that God has the best intentions for me. His love for me is greater then the person I go to get coffee with so wouldn't the things that He has to say be even more important in my life.

I had recently switched my majors and I keep wondering if it was in God's plan for me. I was at coffee with a friend talking with him and he told me that it seems like I'm in a transition spot where I don't really know where things are going but God does. I think He's right and now I'm going to have to listen to what God is saying and what He wants me to do with my life.

I'm reading a new book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. In it was an essay written by a fourteen year old girl named Brooke Bronkowski. She listened to God and this is what she had to say about her life.

"Since I Have My Life Before Me"

I'll live my life to the fullest. I'll be happy. I'll brighten up. I will be moe joyful than I have ever been. I will be kind to others. I will loosen up. I will tell others about Christ. I will go on adventures and change the world. I will be bold and not change who I really am. I will have no troubles but instead help others with their troubles. 

You see, I'll be one of those people who live to be history makers at a young age. Oh, I'll have moments, good and bad, but I will wipe away the bad and only remember the good. In fact that's all I remember, just good moments, nothing in between, just living my life to the fullest. I'll be one of those people who go somewhere with a mission, an awesome plan, a world-changing plan, and nothing will hold me back. I'll set an example for others, I will pray for direction. 

I have my life before me. I will give others the joy I have and God will give me more job. I will do everything God tell me to do. I will follow the footsteps of God. I will do my best!!!

That's what really happened to her. She died her freshmen year of high school but the lives she touched were thousands.

Imagine if we thought like that and let ourselves be directed by God. There wouldn't be anything in this world that we couldn't do. In I Peter 1:6-7 it says that we rejoice in our struggles because it tests the genuineness of our faith. The struggle of having to let go and have faith in God to lead your life is tough, but it should be one that makes us rejoice!