Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Eagerly Wanting

I SOOO eagerly want to be like Jesus. If you haven't already started The Life You've Always Wanted, you need to now. I am only 3 chapters in and it is speaking so much truth into my life already. I wanted to share some of it with you 1. to get you interested if you haven't started it and 2. because I had already been pondering this theme in my life, how can I be like Jesus so that other people notice.

I want God to encompass my entire life and radiate from me. I want to be like Jesus in the fact that his "response was simply, "Love God, love people."" (Ortberg, p. 32) Jesus was one to attract people to him, not make people run away from like the other rabbi. He was so full of love that people couldn't get enough of him. I've been thinking about this with my friends and acquaintances. Do I love them unconditionally...no matter what? Right now, I can't say that I do. I always come up with an excuse not to hang out with some or give attitude when things don't go the way I planned. I have friends who only want to hang out if I drive to them (I don't want to! Why can't it be 50/50? Gas prices are killing me right now!) but that doesn't mean I just write them off. I don't think Jesus would have done that.

I want to pour into my friends the love of Christ, Christian or non-Christian, and have an effect on them. I want to make sure that they know I love them and will do anything for them. What a saying that most of us say but don't act on. It all takes more effort but I feel like my relationship with them and Christ will be stronger. We are richly blessed by God and each other here in Circles and I feel like it is our job to show how much God can change our lives by the simple things we do each week together. I am so grateful for everyone. Thank you for changing my life to be more like Jesus every day :-)

6 comments:

  1. This is MY GREATEST PRAYER!!! I want to be more like Jesus. Everyday. All day. Forever. Till I die. haha But it is a process, for sure. We are going through this process of being refined in the fire to be shaped, molded, carved, chiseled more and more to look like our Saviour. Your zeal and passion is encouraging. Thank you:) stoked to start this book!!

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  2. Love God, love people... love that! Yes girl, like Brandon said, this is such a great prayer. If only we could all strive after this! I'm going to say a prayer for you in this right now. And thank you for the encouragement on starting the book... I need to get on it!

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  3. :) Love this & love you. I miss you & I am praying for you. I hope to see you tomorrow night. Thank you for helping me to become more like Christ & have a better understanding of who God is :)

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  4. me too!!! o, me too. I want MORE of Him so much and less of me and as I try to seek a deeper understanding of who Christ was and who God is and everything it just blows me away. O, how I want to be more like Him so I am a display of His splendor. and how I want to love people unconditionally. man. so much.

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  5. I just want to affirm you Lindsey that even though I have only known you for a short while I can see that you are a dedicated, loving friend. I think this come from your relator strength ;) I am grateful to have gotten to know you and develop a friendship with you. :)Love you!

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  6. i think people are good, when you really get down to it. we all want to love each other somewhere in there. thank you for sharing your desire :)

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