Discipline, is something I am being challenged with lately and is something I am being reminded of often.
It was at the wedding I went to this weekend in Oregon. I was sitting there excitedly seeing my friends commit their lives to each other and listening to what their family and friends had to say about who they were, and it really impacted me. Seeing the impact that they had on the people in their lives and seeing how they devoted themselves and their relationship to the Lord was an incredible thing to witness. They were each so devoted to God and I’ve been thinking about how important that is, to be devoted to God.
I examined my life and as I had been realizing weeks before I was finding it hard to be motivated and disciplined in how I spent my time with the Lord. I always have this desire to create space to just be with God, and I fail in that always, I will try to get up earlier but I literally can’t roll out of bed, or I will try to stay up later but I am just exhausted from the day at that point. But in my heart there is seriously nothing I want more than to just be with God. So why is it so dang hard for me to do it?
I think it is because devotion to God is not something that we just one day have, it is something we have to develop. I think it really does take sacrifice and discipline to live a life devoted to God. So that is something I am trying to learn how to do is to be more disciplined even if it means there is sacrifice involved.
Looking at the newly wedded couples relationship and seeing how beautiful it was to see them get married, it made me see that being fully given to God is really important, it is something I personally want to be a lot more serious about.
I think it is so cool that God has chosen us to be imitators of Him. Out of every beautiful thing in the world He specifically created US in HIS image and chose us to display his Glory and splendor. Knowing this, it is what motivates me to be disciplined when seeking God. It motivates me to allow God to have His way, because He created me to display him and If I don’t take that seriously by disciplining myself and learning how to devote myself more then I don’t think His Glory will be displayed through me to the extent in which He deserves.
I believe that is why the wedding impacted me so much because I saw God displayed through two people who chose to devote themselves fully to Him, and through doing that they beautifully displayed the Glory and splendor of God.
-Emily
It was at the wedding I went to this weekend in Oregon. I was sitting there excitedly seeing my friends commit their lives to each other and listening to what their family and friends had to say about who they were, and it really impacted me. Seeing the impact that they had on the people in their lives and seeing how they devoted themselves and their relationship to the Lord was an incredible thing to witness. They were each so devoted to God and I’ve been thinking about how important that is, to be devoted to God.
I examined my life and as I had been realizing weeks before I was finding it hard to be motivated and disciplined in how I spent my time with the Lord. I always have this desire to create space to just be with God, and I fail in that always, I will try to get up earlier but I literally can’t roll out of bed, or I will try to stay up later but I am just exhausted from the day at that point. But in my heart there is seriously nothing I want more than to just be with God. So why is it so dang hard for me to do it?
I think it is because devotion to God is not something that we just one day have, it is something we have to develop. I think it really does take sacrifice and discipline to live a life devoted to God. So that is something I am trying to learn how to do is to be more disciplined even if it means there is sacrifice involved.
Looking at the newly wedded couples relationship and seeing how beautiful it was to see them get married, it made me see that being fully given to God is really important, it is something I personally want to be a lot more serious about.
I think it is so cool that God has chosen us to be imitators of Him. Out of every beautiful thing in the world He specifically created US in HIS image and chose us to display his Glory and splendor. Knowing this, it is what motivates me to be disciplined when seeking God. It motivates me to allow God to have His way, because He created me to display him and If I don’t take that seriously by disciplining myself and learning how to devote myself more then I don’t think His Glory will be displayed through me to the extent in which He deserves.
I believe that is why the wedding impacted me so much because I saw God displayed through two people who chose to devote themselves fully to Him, and through doing that they beautifully displayed the Glory and splendor of God.
-Emily