Q: What situations(s) are you facing right now where God is calling you to persist in faithful obedience to him?
A: There are a ton of places in my life that God is calling me to be more faithful in my life. I feel like over the past year and a half he has been just telling me to get one area after another in order. A lot of the areas require too much back-story to explain why God wants me to work on them, and some other ones are just a little more personal then I wish to publish on the web. Thats right, I said there actually is something I won’t write about online, and as most of you know I discuss my life pretty openly, but some stuff just isn’t meant for my blog. But I know that God does not call us to do things without giving us the strength and endurance to accomplish them. One of the things I’ve had to be persistent in is writing in this blog for my devotions. Does anyone read all of these things besides Janine and Lauren? I have wondered if I should even keep doing this. Everyone I talk to says they like it, but no one (except Janine, have to give props where it is due) ever chimes in with their thoughts or responses to what I write. So, I propose, that people click on the link that says “Post a new comment” which is to the left of the word “Devotions” and to the right of “Comments (0). Do not click on the “Comments: Add Your Own” linke because that is something Livejournal adds and I cannot respond to comments made that way. But Anyway, write something, what you think about my posts, what you think about this question, or whatever. Just let me know that more then 2 or 3 people read this and enjoy it. Ok, it’s late, I’m tired, and tired of writing and ranting. So I’m calling it a day. Night
Paul Egli says
I’ve started reading it recently.
Janine says
I read it! I’ve noticed that within the last week no one has had much time to be on live journal. They’ve barely had time to post what’s going on in their lives. I often question/wonder if people read my stuff too, but then I see and realize that no one is getting posts so that means that everyone is too busy to verbalize their thoughts.
What do I need to be more faithful in? umm tons. My morning – on a rate of 1-10 (1 being the worst) is rating at 2. So I am not really in the mode to right about faithfulness when I feel pretty ‘faithless’ in some areas.
luv to my bro Ben.
Jae
Lauren says
k, so you already know that I read this, but I thought you might like the comment. (I clicked on the right button, yes?) I think the thing that God is calling me to be faithful in mostly right now is just being patient with people. In general I think I’m a pretty patient person, but lately I’ve been using that as an excuse for why it’s okay this time to real just hand it to the person I’m supposed to be encouraging. Or maybe I’m just really wanting to do that, I don’t know. But I need to be more faithful about praying to see people like God sees them and exercising some restraint even when it seems like someone is never going to receive the truth unless someone beats in into them.
I’ve also been thinking about fasting lately. I haven’t fasted in a long time, not since my struggle with anorexia. It just doesn’t seem safe after being addicted to feeling hungry. But I think God’s kind of moving in that direction in my life, and I hope that if that’s what he’s wanting that he’ll keep me safe in that.:) I don’t have any solid plans to do that yet, but I’m keeping my eye out for when God says ‘now’.
Those are my thoughts, please keep posting Ben, I really do love reading what you have to say.:)
Lauren
Dirk says
I always read your stuff. I just figured that you were using this mostly to get your own thoughts out on (digital) paper.
But anyways, God is calling me to be more faithful in many areas of my life. A few of them are material wealth and money (because I am not generous enough with my money (and too concerned about the next “toy” I”m getting), humility (because I can be very arrogant at times), and the purity of my thoughts (because my mind wanders to much). There’s quite a few others, but I don’t have the time to list them all 😛