An eternal perspective

So just to warn you ahead of time I can barely see this screen as I am typing BUT I really really wanted to share with you all what the Lord just taught me.

I just had one of those sweet times of fellowship with Jesus that is too wonderful to even try to put into words but I am going to try to just because that is what you do in blog posts! :)

I am going to actually include a little part of my prayer journal entry from my personal devotions today:

Sitting here thinking over this past year to date I just feel as though something isn't right...I just really cannot put my finger on it. Maybe it is the realization that I have allowed my walk with You to grow stagnant. Lord. Why? I am sitting here trying to think of the reasons.
I guess a part of it was that last year was SO difficult physically that I HAD to be completely dependent on You alone. This year (to date it really hasn't been that long of a year yet!) I really have not had to deal with anything like that. Lord, I don't think that is a bad thing necessarily but I am just realizing how I have gotten to the point where You are not the #1 thing in my life anymore.
Even today Lord. I could have spent so much time with You but instead I just...wasted the day away. I really don't even remember what I did today and a huge part of that is because I did absolutely nothing of TRUE LASTING IMPORTANCE...


I have been thinking about looking at things through an eternal perspective. If I had been today I know I would not have done many of the things I did. Not that any of those things were wrong but from an eternal perspective it really doesn't matter how many people commented on my facebook status. From an eternal perspective it really doesn't matter how much traffic I had on my blog. I could have spent that time with Jesus and instead...I wasted them away and I can not even remember the point of it. If only I had put my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ FIRST today. If only I had CHOSEN to spend time in the Word and in prayer and THEN gone on to do stuff like facebook and blogging (NOTE: I am not saying those things are wrong. I just know in my life that I really need to be careful that they don't consume me).

This time that I wasted ,not only today, but this year to date.

I CAN NEVER GET IT BACK.

On some days...that is a really sad realization.

So I am sitting there in my chair pondering and praying and repenting about these things when I opened my Bible and started reading my daily reading.

Here are some AMAZING things the Lord showed me from Colossions:

"As you therefore have received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
rooted and built up in Him and
established in the faith,
as you have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving. "
(Colossians 2:6-7)

I (and any one of you that have been brought to the saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ) have received Jesus Christ and because of that I am told to walk in Him and to not only walk but be rooted and built up in HIM.
Because I am to be so rooted in him I am also to be ESTABLISHED in the faith. When I think about what that means I definitely think that the way I will become so rooted is through spending time getting to KNOW my God through prayer and the reading of His Words. How else will I expect to be established? I need to put forth some effort when it comes to getting to know Him just as I would in any other relationship I was trying to grow.

"For in Him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily;
and you are complete in Him,
who is the head of all
principality and power."
(Colossians 2:10)

I am complete in Christ and ONLY in CHRIST. No one of nothing else will ever bring me complete and total satisfaction, completion in my life or will fill up that void inside me.
ONLY JESUS CHRIST!!
So why do I still persist to try to find my satisfaction in other people and in other things aside from Christ? What is the point? Truly, I think life would become so much simpler if I would stop trying to find fulfillment in other things and in other people. Instead, I should start to just gaze only at my Savior looking to HIM alone for my fulfillment.
He ALONE is worthy!

"And you, being dead in your
trespasses and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, He has made alive
together with Him, having
forgiven you all trespasses,
having wiped out the handwriting
of requirements that was against us,
which was contrary to us.
And He has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross
(Colossians 2: 12-14)

When I read those two verses and realize all over again all He has done for me...WOW! How can I NOT give Him my all? How can I NOT strive to live a 110% Surrendered life for HIS honor and HIS glory?

He died for me...the LEAST I can do is live for Him.

Why?

Because HE IS WORTHY!

Wow...I am hoping that made a little bit of sense! I told you I was going to TRY to put all He taught me and made me discover yet again in words :) Honestly I copied almost all of this from notes I made during my devotional time!

May He alone be glorified in our lives!