When I decided to restart this blog, I had a number of intentions:
Well, I’ve now discovered that in order to write something every day with purpose and meaning… you actually have to live intentionally. This is not something that comes naturally to any of us… and even less so with me. I (like most I suppose) would rather coast through life without thinking much (except for those times that I lament how little I think and just coast through life.) If you just wake up every morning, go to work, come home, play with your kids a little, eat dinner, watch TV, and go to bed… there isn’t much that’s interesting to write about. Well, frankly, that’s because you’ve become completely uninteresting yourself (or, myself, since that’s the point of this little rant.)
So, how to be interesting? Have a reason to get up every morning other than responsibility. I need to realize just how incredible life really is. God has made this awesome life for me to live. I can either squander it or enjoy it. Enjoying it means taking some risks and living as if God put me here for a purpose (He did) and as if He’s actually planned my life to provide the greatest benefit to the Kingdom (He has). I can get up tomorrow and live an intentional life because He will work all things to good because I love Him. What great security that is? It means I can take risks for the Kingdom. How much more intentionally I could live if I could wake up every morning with that thought in my mind. Risk it all for His glory – you’ll never regret it. (Bordered on pontification, didn’t it? Sorry.)
Hopefully, you see in these writings a man who is staying The Course and pursuing The Path amidst the pitfalls and selfish ways of being a son of Adam. I pray earnestly that my writing would encourage some of you by showing you that this journey - though arduous and sometimes tragic - is a journey of great satisfaction. A satisfaction greater than our greatest imaginings. The trials and refining fire of tribulation are to be recognized as a small shadow of the suffering of our Savior so that we can rejoice, as Peter and the disciples did, to be counted worthy to suffer for the sake of the Name.