“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
A couple weeks ago, at care group, we watched a DVD. The website is called www.myoneword.org
and it is about choosing ONE WORD for your life. The instructions are this:
- determine the kind of person you want to become by the end of the year - you must drive deep into your soul. What about the condition of your heart? Who is the person that God has created you to be?
- identify characteristics of that person - get a picture and simply identify major characterists. What are the qualities?
- list the characteristics and then pick a word. Commit to it.
- pick a verse to go with your word (this was added, I am not sure it is on the website as a point to do, but it was part of our homework)
So last Saturday night, I got to writing in my journal - and thinking about my "one word" for my life - for the woman that I want to be by the end of the year - only by the grace of God I might add - because without HIM, I can be nothing!!
Here is what I wrote, and what I am choosing to share with you.
I want to become a woman who lives fully for Jesus - embracing all that he has for me!! I want to become more deliberate in my faith, and more intentional in my being Jesus hands and feet to others. I want to fall in love more and more with Jesus - getting to know the lover of my soul in an intimate way - and to fall madly in love with the Lord. I want to live fully and embrace life fully - to "go big or go home"
What is the picture of a woman like that? She would be content in her demeanour, loving, fun and passionate. She would be kind in words and actions, a teacher of the truth, inviting, with an exuberant faith. She would have an obvious love for Jesus, and would live all out and fully, with a wild abandonment to the ONE love of her soul - Jesus Christ. She would embrace life, and would not live with complacency or status quo, but would be willing and open to what God is calling her too. She would perhaps feel a timidity but at the same time live with adventure even when God's way for her is not clearly seen. She would be ruined for the ordinary, and would live hopefully so that the devil knows he has no foothold in any part of her life! She would live with abandon to self and given fully and totally abandoned to Jesus Christ!
Words to describe: LOVING ~ FUN ~ DELIBERATE ~ INTENTIONAL ~ INTIMATE ~ MADLY IN LOVE ~ CONTENT BUT NOT COMPLACENT ~ EMBRACING LIFE ~ TEACHER ~ INVITING ~ ADVENTURE ~ RUINED FOR ORDINARY ~ ABANDON
I WANT THIS TO BE ME!!!
MY ONE WORD: ABANDON
Abandon means: to give up completely (course of action, practice or way of thinking) synonym: relinquish; complete lack of inhibition or restraint, synonym: uninhibitedness, recklessness, wildness, lack of inhibition.
Verses to live by, on my way to becoming a woman that lives a life of total abandon to Jesus:
Mark 8:34-37
The Message (MSG)
34-37 Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?
or from NIV translation:
Mark 8:34-35
New International Version (NIV)
The Way of the Cross
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
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