God, Please Use Someone Else

God, Please Use Someone Else

I have found that I am completely satisfied with little or much, when I'm most content with more and more of Jesus.

Living experiences are the soil that gladness is planted to blossom the fruit of contentment.

Jonah is such a helpful view in our contemporary settings and a reminder how easy it is for us to find ourselves focusing on and fighting for lifeless things and the ugly consequences that follow. None of us are exempt... and relying on our past walk with the Lord, rather than seeking and leaning in on Him today, is a sure way to set us up to run like Jonah. I pray these principles and teachings will not only help and encourage you today... but will be a good reminder for you in the days ahead.

The consequences, (which, by the way, are completely out our control), the consequences of sowing corrupt seed is that we continue to reap a corrupt harvest... long after you acknowledge your ways and act in faith upon the fresh word God gives. Forgiveness... may turn back the consequences of dealing with God without His forgiveness and favor, but forgiveness doesn't alter the harvest that takes place in our minds, homes, relationships, community, finances... and the list goes on and on. The seed we sow is the seed we reap... it can be a harvest of death or eternal life, depending on the seed. When you make life about you, you will continue to make life about you when you have to face circumstances that challenge your ideas.

Jonah made things —specifically the things he delighted in — the meter by which he would be grateful or not.

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