Live, Love, Learn

Live each day to the fullest as if it were the last.
Love really is the most important thing in life.
Learn all you can...

Or at least that was the motto in my life for the last week. I spent the last week in Portland for school. It was really good, really insightful, really though-provoking...

Here are some thoughts

The only relationship in life that I can control is my relationship with God. It is always an open relationship. I cannot control any other person and my relationship with them.

Pray about how God wants to creatively reach those around us – He is the Creator! We depend way too much on our own vision, our wisdom, our methods and we get stuck there.

As a leader self-differentiating myself is the biggest gift I can give those around me.

Maybe spiritual transformation is not just about becoming more like Christ maybe we are transformed into the likeness of Christ for the sake of others. After all - it is not about us.

God created the world from chaos and created an order, a rhythm, a pattern to things. The sun rises and sets, the waves roll rhythmically, seasons change and there are 7 days to a week. There is an order to creation. God rested on the seventh day. Perhaps there is something to resting and being still and sitting back and watching. I don't think we take the meaning of Sabbath seriously enough...

We serve such an amazing God and we often lose the awe of that. If we were to really see God for the big and holy God that He is - it would completely change our perspective of life. Perhaps it would even make it possible for us to live as Christ.

So let us never forget to live to the fullest, love with everything we have and learn well. But let's not forget God in it all! He is incomparably amazing!