dreams
The other day I read a great article on Relevant (relevantmagazine.com) about a girl who is in almost the same place my wife and I are right now as we look towards my graduation in May. In about two months, I'll enter the real, working world. It's exciting, yet scary at the same time. In this article, the author mentions a Bible verse: Psalms 37:4. It says “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” The basic idea of the article is that we all have dreams—dreams that God has given us. To realize those dreams, we have to learn to delight ourselves—or take joy in—God.
I thought this was pretty interesting because it seems so counter-intuitive. To achieve our God-given dreams, we’re supposed to focus more on Him. We’re not supposed to try harder or spend more time striving to achieve these things, we’re supposed to focus on Him. We’re supposed to delight and take joy in Him.
Taking joy in God is something that I really believe can revolutionize my faith in God. In the end, it’s not about doing good, or being the best Christian I can be, or praying a lot. It’s about learning to take joy in God. I was thinking about how it is that we do that. Or how, in my life, can I learn to find joy in God.
I came in to our studio this morning and I was just dreading project we're working on. I'm at a complete stand-still and it's due tomorrow. I was trying to get myself pumped up about it and I realized that today is the day that I’m going to make something. Today is the day that it’s going to break open. The last two projects, these frustrating kinds of days have been the absolutely coolest experiences for me once I push through my creative process. I finally get to a point of making and I just go crazy until something is formed out of a chaos that I’ve relinquished control of.
And then I realized, it’s the same way with God. Just when we get frustrated and we’re not sure how in the world everything’s going to work out, we must shift our eyes to the joy of trusting in God. We have to relinquish control to God and wait patiently for beauty to erupt triumphantly from the chaos. So with that in mind, I step up, confident that something will come out of this chaotic project and even more importantly, that these frightening transitions in my life right now will ultimately be doorways to the future that God has implanted in my dreams.
I thought this was pretty interesting because it seems so counter-intuitive. To achieve our God-given dreams, we’re supposed to focus more on Him. We’re not supposed to try harder or spend more time striving to achieve these things, we’re supposed to focus on Him. We’re supposed to delight and take joy in Him.
Taking joy in God is something that I really believe can revolutionize my faith in God. In the end, it’s not about doing good, or being the best Christian I can be, or praying a lot. It’s about learning to take joy in God. I was thinking about how it is that we do that. Or how, in my life, can I learn to find joy in God.
I came in to our studio this morning and I was just dreading project we're working on. I'm at a complete stand-still and it's due tomorrow. I was trying to get myself pumped up about it and I realized that today is the day that I’m going to make something. Today is the day that it’s going to break open. The last two projects, these frustrating kinds of days have been the absolutely coolest experiences for me once I push through my creative process. I finally get to a point of making and I just go crazy until something is formed out of a chaos that I’ve relinquished control of.
And then I realized, it’s the same way with God. Just when we get frustrated and we’re not sure how in the world everything’s going to work out, we must shift our eyes to the joy of trusting in God. We have to relinquish control to God and wait patiently for beauty to erupt triumphantly from the chaos. So with that in mind, I step up, confident that something will come out of this chaotic project and even more importantly, that these frightening transitions in my life right now will ultimately be doorways to the future that God has implanted in my dreams.
posted by Forrest @ 9:20 AM
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