This is YOUR life

These are lyrics from a song called This is your life by Switchfoot:


This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose.

Do me a favor & take a minute and ask yourself, "Am I who I want to be?". It doesn't take me long to answer that question for me.. The answer is no; I am not who I want to be & I'm not who God wants me to be fully yet either. I guarantee alot of people would answer 'no' as well, not just me. 

Well now what? after I've said no, what am I suppose to do? 

Don't get me wrong, I think in every Christians life they KNOW a few things they absolutely have to do. And that feeling of just knowing what your doing is right is an amazing feeling. I want to wake up everyday and know that what I'm going to do that day, is my purpose. I want to be able to say "This right here? It's who God wants me to be. It's who I am." and I'm sure a few people can agree with me on my previous statement and my next- Living out God's purpose is one of the best things in the world.

Everything in your life, the heartaches, the victories, the failures, the stumbles, the recovery's,every moment, God is going to turn into something good. I'll say it again,- just in a different way-, every part of your life, big and small God put there for a reason-To slowly shape you into who He intended you to be. All because He knows for a fact you CAN be that person.

Jeremiah 29:11 says "For I know the plans I have for you" Declares the Lord "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future" That verse says it all right there. He has a plan for you to be that person.

Every now and then we may get little glimpses of what were suppose to do. Sometimes God might even show us something major that were gonna be/do. I know more than a few people He's told about their future some, me included (that's for some other time though). The point is that; it's there. He has a future for us, a point where we are who we want to be & who He wants us to be. It's achievable. 

Honestly? If I knew all the answers to magically be that person, I would tell you. But I don't.. But what I do know is that someday? As long as we acknowledge Him in all our ways(Proverbs 3:6); He will shape us into that person. Someday, as long as we follow Him? We WILL be at that spot where we wake up and say "This right here? It's who God wants me to be. It's who I am." It's achievable. It's not THAT far out of reach.

The situation for each and every one of us is the same, yet unique all in one:

The same part- God has a plan for us to be someone greater than we are now. We all want to get there. 

The unique part- How we go about it, and who God wants us to be is not like anyone else. We all have a different piece that makes up the body of Christ. We all contribute something unique.

So I leave you with you with one question to think of the answer too;

1. Are you going to let God make you into that person? God WILL change your life, only if you let Him.

This is YOUR life. Your life is precious; don't waste it.