pour me out

I was reading to the deeper group a couple devotions from "My Upmost for His Highest" The title of both devotions was "Are you Ready to be Poured out As An Offering?"

One line that really got to me was "It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becomming a "doormat" under other people's feet."

Frankly this scares the crap out of me. Of course I have done things in the past that I haven't gotten any credit for. But I will admit that I DID complain about not getting credit for those things... if only in my own mind. As humans we want to get credit from people, even if its just one person that notices what we have done at least one person noticed. I have been challenged to let the recognition from God be enough for me. To not seek recognition from man, but just from God, knowing that He knows what I have done and is pleased, letting myself get peace from that. I have been challenged to let myself be poured out as an offering, even if its for something small and perhaps insignificant.

Hello world here's the song that we're singing...

Well... it seems that I may make the switch over from my xanga blog to blogger. I just like the way that the new blogger works and looks. So here I am blogger world!

I have decided to call this blog "Becoming a Lover" because thats what I want to be. No not in some psycho crazy sexual way, I want to be a lover of people and of God first and foremost. He is teaching me how to become this way, little by little.

My thought for today is this, quotes taken from Shane Claiborne's book "The Irresistable Revolution"

"I am not concerned with what I am going to do. I am more interested in who I am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people."

"I was convinced that what we do is not nearly as important as who we are."

"Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus." - Mother Teresa