Jesus turned to Peter and said "Follow Me!" Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them...and said to Jesus, "Lord, and what about this man?" Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!" (John 21: 19-22)
God spoke these words to me while I was in the shower a couple of days ago. My motivation for following God lately has hardly been out of love. It's been alot of comparing myself to others and wondering what they think. Am I material that a certain someone wants to go out with? Do I look like an example to others? Why do I feel like people are so much better than me? I want to be better! What if someone says I'm not thinking rationally about things in life? And then God said this to me... with individual emphasis on each of the words: YOU FOLLOW ME. Forget about the others. Forget about comparing yourself. Forget about measuring up, about your worries about people liking you, or people thinking that you're not thinking clearly about things. Forget about the things you're dragging with you. YOU FOLLOW ME. So that's my plan and prayer. Me just following Him. No distractions. That's it. I know I will fail at times, but Jesus just looks at me saying "repent, surrender, YOU FOLLOW ME."
About Me
- Candice
- I'm a girl who feels like I've done alot of thinking...and have come to the conclusion that following God is the best possible way to spend my life. Follow Him through all the good times as well as through the nit and grit of life. Life is a hard, rough road with lots of rocks and boulders and roots to trip on, but I think that as I follow God more and more, the path will get rougher, but the scenery and happenings around me will become increasingly beautiful. (Philippians 3:7-11).
6 comments:
What is a distraction? Couldn't anything be a distraction if you let it be? Or not be a distraction if you chose for it not to be? Could it not be turned into something that could cause growth? What sorts of distractions are you talking about?
I don't know...
I do know that I miss you and love you to pieces.
K
Yup, I suppose all of the above are true.
The sort of distractions I'm personally talking about are things like being stuck in self-pity, loneliness, comparing myself with others... all the things that take up my energy and pull my focus off God to the point where I don't live solely for God, but for myself and those things. Those things motivate me instead of being motivated out of following and loving Jesus. That's definitely not the way God intended for us to live.
Not saying I won't ever not be distracted. But the disciples initially left everything to follow Jesus - nothing "tied" them down. Their lives revolved around Jesus. Later, they got distracted (wanted to eat, didn't let the kids come to Jesus), but God re-directed their focus every time, because they were following Him. I want the driving force of my life to be about following Jesus, and I know He'll redirect my focus when I get off track.
I want my energy to be spent in following God. I'm pretty sure there's nothing better than that in life. - come to think of it, that makes loving God with all my mind and strength alot easier than I before thought!
I miss you and love you to pieces too! Hopefully we can hang out sometime soon!
Yippee! you have a blog! I will be in calgary in August- are you around? are you going to kelli' s wedding? Miss you my bunk-bed-bud-of-years-gone-by
Hi Beth!
I'm in Edmonton right now, but may be able to take a trip down to Calgary! I haven't received an invitation to Kelli's wedding yet -it could be because I moved and didn't leave a forwarding address. What day is her wedding on?
I think it is towards the end of July... she called me a few weeks ago to tell me to book a flight, and seemed awfully offended when I said I didn't want to sell my internal organs on ebay to pay for the flight. I think Ash is planning to go though. Also it is the week I have my graduation Ceremony, and my parents want to see me all dressed up in one of those ridiculous gowns.
I hope I do get to see you, as the last two times we flew over the pond we have met up, so I associate my darling Candy with the trip! I will talk Ash into visiing, so we can have a 50% room 7 reunion!
Ummm... I guess I had to say it sometime. Ryan and I aren't together anymore....
To make a long story short, we did alot of praying and came to the conclusion that this is where God wants us right now. Undistracted attention to Him, with the freedom to follow Him wherever (I think we were kind of squishing each other -bad news in such a relationship). God gave me a huge peace about it all, which is good. So we're each just trusting God with how He wants our relationship to go. If you want more explanation just e-mail me!
So, Laura - who knows what's going to happen!! :o) You may be married before me!
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