About a week ago I moved to Colorado. Most people ask why ... in fact, before I left Houston (where I was before) some friends threw me a "good-bye / good luck" party in a restaurant. The manager of the restaurant, a little old woman, came up ...
"Where'r you moving?"
(me) "Colorado"
"You got a job there?"
"No, not yet"
"You got a man there?"
"Nope ... not yet" :)
I have been in Colorado 10 days and I still have neither of these things! Good thing that's not why I was moving! Why did I move? Cause I wanted to live by faith. Cause I wanted to pursue what I thought God was calling me to do. Cause a friend asked me to. Cause, hey, who wouldn't want to live in Colorado!?
But the funny thing is ... somethings never change wherever you move ... like yourself. I still have the same personality, the same tendensies, the same evil heart as I did everywhere else I've lived. So what keeps me from slipping back into the same self-centered lifestyle when I really want to just throw it off!?
I strive to keep my eyes fixed on the "author and perfecter of my faith"! (Hebrews 12)
I may fall, stumble, veer left or right, but only lose if I give up.
"If we start anywhere else but Christ, we lose our way."
~Jesus Manifesto p.108
Lord, I want to start everything every day with you!
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