Every year, we grow a little older and hopefully a little wiser…but are we really “growing”? Time and time again, I find myself thinking the same thoughts, going through the same motions, and repeating something that has no meaning. For me, I often have to fight these complacent, stagnant actions and replace them with something better.
One of my favorite words is “intentional”. It basically means to do something with a purpose. A few years back, I realized that Jesus lived His life in a way that was intentional…with His spirituality, community, actions and conversations. Everything He did had a purpose and that’s one of the many things that we can learn from Jesus: to live our lives with a purpose. “Doing what I see the Father doing,” was the phrase. Not just aiming our life at happy Oprah-style thoughts and changed habits, but really digging deep and listening to God’s call on our lives and make intentional decisions based on that.
Easter is a day where Jesus’ Resurrection not only provided Him with new life, but we’re also told that we have this new life through Jesus. But what does that look like? I would think that part of it involves us making intentional decisions in living our faith in a bold and loving way which causes the greatest impact we can because God’s called us to it. Because we’re a part of the renewed creation that God’s bringing into the world, let’s act on that and live our lives so that as time goes on, we can look back on it and be amazed at the awesome feats that God has done through us.
-Ken
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