Learning to Live by Design «

It’s been said that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are those that make things happen. There are those who watch things happen. There are those who have no idea what’s happening. I want you in that first group.

Job 6:11 “I do not have the strength to endure. I do not have a goal that encourages me to carry on.” If you don’t have goals set in your life right now I will tell you without even knowing you that well that you’re just drifting. You’re just coasting. You’re going through life aimlessly without direction. If you don’t have goals you have nothing to encourage you to keep going.

A ton of people just coast through life because living a life by design is both a lot of work and is not easy work to do. It takes courage to wake up every day and choose to live life on purpose. There is fear of obstacles, fear of being overwhelmed and just a general fear of failure. Ambrose Redmoon said this. “Courage is not the absence of fear. But rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

The guys in my men’s small group have been working for a few months on becoming increasingly “on purpose”. Here are a few of my musings (an ya…it’s a work in process):

Purpose:
Enjoy God and make the God I enjoy known, while living my life with intentionality.

I enjoy God by:

Learning about Him (Bible)

Spending time with Him (Listening)

Trusting Him (Obeying)

Resting in Him (Sabbath)

Giving my resources to Him (Time, Talent and Treasure)

Spending time in His creation

Loving the people He brings across my path