Sunday, July 27, 2008

God has a Dream for Your Life

Last year on this day I was in Boston at a Women of Faith conference and that was the title...God has a Dream...and I had a dream for my life too! Smile. I went home from the conference and open my devotional My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers and my idea and lessons from the conference were crushed and the chaff was blown away and this is what all that remained...pieces of what Mr Chambers had to say...and I quote:

"We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us. His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; but He is not....What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. God is not working towards a particular finish; His end is the process...It is the process not the end that is glorifying to God. God's end is for me to see that He can walk on the chaos of life right now...we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present: if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.
Be blessed and splash it on to others, like a sweet perfume. Maralee

1 comment:

BMan said...

Awesome stuff! I have to remind myself constantly about "the process" is the purpose! The here-and-now is the focus.

I think Phil V. has a lot to say about dreams in his book "Me, Myself, and Bob." Here's my blog entry for it.