Today

I want to do something important with my life. I am terrified that my whole life I will tell myself “I’m going to do something important” and then I’ll get to the end, or the end will come sooner than I expected and nothing will come out of it. I want to do something important for the Lord. I want to advance His kingdom and see mountains moved,  but most of the time I feel like the days are spent focusing on myself and my mind is filled with me, me, me. I want to GO. I want to be the person that takes risks and sees the world and feels the freedom of relying only on the Lord. Yet my feet feel like they’re permanently planted in four feet of mud. 

    When does life change? When does the mundane change into the passionate and adventurous life I always dreamed of? Is it there tomorrow? Maybe next month? Should I wait for it to one day arrive in a nice wrapped package on my doorstep? I don’t think so.. Or should i say my heart knows that’s not it. 

    New life starts today. It starts the moment I accept Jesus’ sacrifice for me, and that it IS for me too. It starts when I realize the freedom that has already given me, and choose to live in thankfulness and joy because of it. I can dance down the streets praising Jesus if I wanted to. I can cruise as far as my gas gets and tell the people I meet wherever I stop that there is a magnificent and intimate God who knows their very names if I want. I can choose to take a step into the light and let go of the dark that keeps me sitting and waiting for a tomorrow that is never guaranteed. I can live, and live to the fullest because I am adopted already into the family of the one and only living God. So let’s start now.