Target Practice

Falling on my knees in worship
Giving all I am to seek Your face
Lord all I am is Yours...
My whole life I place in Your hands
God of mercy
Humbled I bow down
At Your presece
At Your throne...
- "Came to my Rescue" (Hillsongs)


God always teaches me things, and I feel that a lot of times I don't learn them because I forget them. Being the "N" that I am (living more in my imagination than in the real world), it's easy for me to get up in ideas and concepts and less on the inaction of those concepts in real life, being the "S" that I am not (living less in the observable, tangible world). So remembering that the entire reason for this blog was to help me remember what God is doing, here we go:


Target #1: Attitude is everything

Now this is something that God has brought to my attention this week, and I am running into plenty of opportunity to practice this "newly" found concept. See, and attitude the way I look at it is not just the way that I feel about the world, but the actual way I choose to see the world. This world is either the world we see, or it is as the Bible says, a world that is ruled by principalties and powers unseen by the human eye. The way my attitude is a huge factor to the enviornment around me, whether it be in my classroom, in my social life, in my church, and in my "ministry." Oswald Chambers said that the things that most define the state of our spirituality are the small things in life. To me, the small things in life has been defined as the multitude of choices in attitude that I make every single length of day. I face so much in a day that can take my attitude away from the way God sees the world and the way that God sees me. Suddenly, the "small" things in life that define my spiritual state, taken cummitively, are not so "small" anymore, are they?


Target #2: I am responsible for my actions first

Now yes, I know that I am responsible for the spiritual welfare of those in my body, but at the same time, I can not expect someone that I'm having issues with change, nor can I truthfully ask for a change in someone when I cannot keep up my end of the bargain. If all I see happening is eye for an eye, well then we will all be blind. I know that I have to lay my own pride aside. I know I have to put the veil of patience and mercy. If I'm not acting right, then I can't expect that other person to act right either. Ha, and I just recalled the personal mantra that I have: that ANY negative feeling on my part is indicitive to a default in MYSELF. I don't need to get angry, God is my Defender. I don't need to get prideful, God is my Good in me. I don't need to get righteous, God is my Law who will act accordingly, for or against me.


Target #3: The best way to teach is to ask questions

And this is an off-target thing more than anything, but I know that God wants me to be able to communicate in a way that is effective. I know that my tongue must be seasoned with salt, and yet I know that the tongue of the virtuous woman is the law of kindness. No one likes to be told something, but everyone remembers a lesson learned on their own than by someone telling them, as if they have walked a mile in their mocassins.


And yes, I realize that I can continue to calculate and formulate theorums and postulates until I'm black and blue, but in the end, this sanctification of this body comes only from God and not by my own flesh. Lord help me see the lines of where my responsability ends and where Your ability begins.

Galatians 3:3

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Lord all I am is Yours...