Know where you’re going:
In the post before this last one, I wrote about knowing what you believe. Because belief affects direction, knowing where you’re going is essential. Sounds too basic, right? But how does knowing where you’re headed affect communication?
Have you ever been in a car with your husband when he doesn’t know where he’s going? He wants you to believe he’s not lost, but it’s clear by the many turns and the tense feeling in the car that he really is. How do you communicate with him? And he with you? Not the best picture of marital bliss.
When you don’t have a sense of the destination, you don’t have confidence in your current location. And when you daily confidence is shaken, you find yourself living a life of haphazard circumstance. This often leads to the “it-was-meant-to-be” or the “I-can’t-fight-fate” mentality that believes not that a life yielded to God has purpose, but that life “is what it is” so why fight it. Once the victim stance takes hold, it is very difficult for someone to find their way back.
I had a friend who used to say, “I know that I know that I know.” When I first heard her say it, I thought that it was just one of those things that you say but don’t really know what it means. But after spending time with her and seeing how she allowed God to daily direct and lead her, I finally understood that statement: her level of knowing began in her mind, passed through her heart, her feelings and emotions, and rested in agreement with the Spirit of God within her.
Knowing – acknowledging, feeling, understanding, and perceiving – where you are headed is essential for daily peace and health. How deep does your understanding go of where, as a Christian, you are headed – in this life and the next? Do you acknowledge God’s providential hand in your life and perceive how His will works in your life? Do you care enough to find out?
Father-God, I desire to know that I know that I know not only where I’m headed after I die, but where I’m headed in the here and now.
Check out: Isaiah 48:17
When you don’t have a sense of the destination, you don’t have confidence in your current location. And when you daily confidence is shaken, you find yourself living a life of haphazard circumstance. This often leads to the “it-was-meant-to-be” or the “I-can’t-fight-fate” mentality that believes not that a life yielded to God has purpose, but that life “is what it is” so why fight it. Once the victim stance takes hold, it is very difficult for someone to find their way back.
I had a friend who used to say, “I know that I know that I know.” When I first heard her say it, I thought that it was just one of those things that you say but don’t really know what it means. But after spending time with her and seeing how she allowed God to daily direct and lead her, I finally understood that statement: her level of knowing began in her mind, passed through her heart, her feelings and emotions, and rested in agreement with the Spirit of God within her.
Knowing – acknowledging, feeling, understanding, and perceiving – where you are headed is essential for daily peace and health. How deep does your understanding go of where, as a Christian, you are headed – in this life and the next? Do you acknowledge God’s providential hand in your life and perceive how His will works in your life? Do you care enough to find out?
Father-God, I desire to know that I know that I know not only where I’m headed after I die, but where I’m headed in the here and now.
Check out: Isaiah 48:17
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I pray God's voice in your ear to direct you and give you a "knowing" of what's next! :O)
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ReplyDeleteI've always had that confidence of knowing where I'm going, but I went through a season of trying so hard to do things on my own, that God had to remind me of who was in charge of my life. Now I know where I'm going, where I want to be, and how I want it to be, but I have to walk by faith in allowing Him to get me there in His way, and in his time--not mine.
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Thanks for the reminder. I started the journey I'm on now because I knew that God had directed me and it has been a long road. I don't know exactly what He has for me when it's done but I know that it's His plan for me to finish. Love your blog!
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