A Life of Love

Tonight a friend of mine spoke at our FCA meeting. He said a few things that I really liked and therefor wanted to share. The main message he was trying to get across is that we make our own decisions and we have choices. God doesn't force us to do anything, then it wouldn't be a choice. There are two basic factors we use to make decisions in our lives: love and fear. When he said this I realized that many of my recent decisions I had made in my life were not based on love at all but on fear. Fear of rejection, fear of being tired, just fear in general and any excuse I could find. Instead of making a decision that would bring love and joy to the ones around me I have been making selfish decisions based around fear. Now are all my decisions based around fear? No of course not but it was a really eye opening conversation. It was later on tonight that I realized that God had answered one of my specific prayers recently to make my heart less selfish and more centered around His purpose. That I relate to making decisions out of fear. I had a chance tonight to make a decision out of love that was very unselfish and without thinking about it I took it and ran with it. I think that the take home message here is that if you put God first in your life and put His mission first at all times you will make decisions out of love. If you get off the "love path" pray for your heart to be re-centered and he will answer your prayers. It might not be how you want him to answer or how you expect him to answer but that just means he has something bigger up his sleeve. Tonight was a night when I could say God thank you for answering this very specific prayer. You are a wonderful, loving, merciful God and I thank you for your presence and purpose in my life!