Intentional Living.

Today for whatever reason I feel like God is working in me to finally start living intentionally. This is either very sad, considering I'm now 24 and am just starting to figure this out; or great news for so many neglected and mistreated areas of my life. I want to begin to truly maintain the areas of my life that I have let sit there and be. Or responsibilites I have neglected that I finally want to take ownership of and get back on track. My finances. My weight and health. My passion for missions in the local area and my heart for Christ. I want to honor Him with all these areas more. I need to stop being so freaking LAZY!! I am far to quick to give into my laziness and then the day is gone and I feel so guilty for having done nothing productive. Now here me on this, I don't think those days are altogether bad or wrong, I just don't ever really have prodictive ones to balance them out!

I really hope that with this new spark or fire(or smoking flax if you have read The Bruised Reed) is finally, hopfully, maybe going to gain some momentum in my life. I owe this revelation to Christ of course. My goodness how He has revealed my laziness, my lack of ambition and my numbness to the urgency of furthering the Gospel. What a selfish fool I have been. I pray that God will continue to reveal these areas for growth in me. That He would continue to put that urgency in my whole being so that I long for the days when I had some free time. I pray that I put my free time to good use, whether that is balancing my checkbook, going shopping for healthy foods, going to a coffee shop to read my Bible and hopefully meeting someone new, working out or cleaning my room. Rather than just watch my busy and intentional room mates run around with purpose, ambition and on mission. I pray that He would bring people into my life to help hold me accountable and encourage me in these things. What kind of a life am I living if I am not intentional with how I spend my time? Thank you Father for opening my eyes to this. I am so grateful and I pray that I would lean on you when I don't feel like doing what I know I should. Give me the strangth to do your will.

Here's to Intentional Living. =)