God is on a quest to challenge my heart, my thinking, my view of my life. Scripture, devotions, books, and lyrics from songs have been tugging at my heart.
I want my life to reflect my faith. I don't want my faith to just be the words I write but to instead reflect in who I am, my behavior and actions, what I chose to do in my life, and what I say...I want to be a true reflection of God...That is God's quest for us...He did make us in His image, right? So when people see me, they shouldn't see me, they should see a reflection of Jesus.
Yesterday I was talking about this to someone. I write in my journal, I type away at my computer in this blog and a word document that will someday hopefully become a book...but is that where my faith is...If I was gone, would that be the only place people would finally get a glimpse of how in love with God I am...just in those words?
There is a song called Shape my Heart sung by Daydreamer Written by
Jason Houtsma and Sean Hall. Part of the lyrics go like this: "Shape my heart until it's just a true reflection of who You are. Lord You have my full affection. I want to be like You."
Today as I go about my day and do the things that I do, my quest is to allow God to "shape my heart". And each day "until it's just a true reflection of who You are"...I want to invest my time in this quest...God's desire...God's quest. We are His reflection and each day He chooses to "shape our hearts". He doesn't have to...he chooses to. I know that I won't always reflect Him...I know each day presents challenges of it's own...but am I going to allow that to block my desire to reflect God...I hope not.
Lord, I pray that we will be on a quest to be a "true reflection of who You are". I pray that each morning we will chose to live our lives with eternal purposes and not the temporary. I thank your for choosing us, for loving us, for investing in us. Lord, I am in awe that you would even think of me or know my name or care so much about me that you made plans for my life before I was even born. I know I fall short. I know I say things to people, to my kids, to my friends, that I wish I could take back the minute the words roll of my tongue. I know I lose my patience, have doubts, don't always trust, seek provision and things as if I deserve more all the time...say "I" way too much...For years I spent my life trying to make my outside reflect ME ME ME...So Lord...forgive me. I pray that I will be in pursuit of reflecting who You are...
If our identity is in Christ...then we should do all we can to reflect Christ, so that His identity is evident in us. We were created in His image...Do we look like Him?
Does that prick at your heart?
On a side note...I am going to be working on this blog site, hoping to figure out how to make is user friendly, easy to navigate, add some links, etc. For now it is just a miracle I even got it going because God did not choose to give me technical giftings...but that is okay...so I will let someone who does have that gifting to help me. And thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to read this...I am completely humbled that you took the time out of your day to read these thoughts...
In love...Teresa
I so agree with you. I want my life to reflect all of who He is. It is so easy to focus on what I want or think I need today and not include Him in so much of our daily living. I too, don't think the world really knows how in love with Jesus I am, but if I keep striving to reflect Him in my life maybe they will see it. Thank you for the mirror today.
ReplyDeletemirror or mirrior? why can't I spell that right now???? :)
ReplyDeleteThis song is really awesome, I use to listen these guys a lot in Brazil. I made a cover version (no, it's not killer as the original, is just to remember the song and all the good memories that it bring it up to me, LOL).
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Gl5GFhozM&feature=youtu.be