The Call on Your Life Part 1

This morning in my study time I was reading in Jonah. I started to reflect on my past when I first felt God put a call on my life. I was fourteen years old and God said..... Chris pursue me and teach others of who I am. Well that didn't fit in to my plan and I went in another direction, just like Jonah. As I read on further, I saw how my decisions and things that I did affected not only myself but others. Just like Jonah I put others in danger and caused much pain in their lives. I separated myself from family and friends but still continued to live a life of destruction. I remember the day, just like Jonah, when I was at the bottom all tangled up in the trash and yuck, when I called out to God and asked him to save me. God reached right in with his grace and mercy and pulled me out. Jonah 2:10 says God spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah up on the seashore. Man I bet he was still really nasty and smelled real bad. I know that was the case for me. God took me through a season of cleaning me up, healing me and brought me closer to Him. Guess what God said next.... Just like He told Jonah in Jonah 3:1-2, on your feet and on your way, you still have work to do.

Place Your Life Before God

Yesterday I had the awesome privilege of taking my 4 year old daughter to work with me. On the way to work she told me......Daddy, girls talk alot - that's what mommy said. Mondays are very busy for me and she stayed true to what her mommy told her. I remember at one time thinking....WOW, she never stops. I had to wait on her hand and foot all day on top of my work. Every step she took she wanted me to hold her hand, open doors for her, buckle her up, at the playground--swing me, Daddy! So many other things she needed from me. I will not lie, trying to work and take care of her was crazy for me. Then on the way home she told me..... Daddy I can't marry you because mommy said you are her man (Now, I always tell her I will find her a husband that God and I choose for her), but she told me yesterday she wants him to be just like me. That made my day!! As crazy as the day was for me that just made everything in me feel awesome. She understands who I am at 4 years old.... Her Daddy, Mommy's Man, and what she wants in her husband all because of what I do for her and how I treat her.

"The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are or do for him." (Romans 12:3)

WOW! What does God do for you? Who is HE to you?