What Is Most Important To Me!
At the end of the day what is most important to me? That is a question we all must ponder from time to time. Sometimes we ask it on our own and sometimes life forces us to answer it. Maybe it doesn’t matter how or when we ask it but I have a feeling that we all ask the same question in various forms.
You might be curious to know how I have answered it? Let me say first that the answer can not come from others. That’s the mistake most christians make. They depend on their church or their pastor for guidance in this area far too much and it will always let them down. I will also say that the answer can not come from me. I have come to realize how very limited I am in understanding what is most important to me.
Maybe for the first time in my life I am beginning to realize that it doesn’t even matter what I think is important. I am beginning to see each day that I am allowed to live on this earth as having a significance that is beyond my ability to grasp at this point. I am becoming more and more confident that the plan for each of our sparks of lfe have very little to do with what we think is important.
Does that mean that I should quit thinking and just let life be? The reality is I coudn’t do that if I tried. I am what I am and I will be what I will be. I am the product of the potter. I am being molded into something that is beyond my wildest imaginations and all I can do at this point is live in this glorious wonder of what is next.
Sometimes I know my family worries about me, but why? God doesn’t worry about me because he knows me. He knows how he has molded me over these last 55 years and he knows exactly what my next moves will be. It is an amazing thing to stop being God and just be a little child. That’s how I feel. I am a little child and without any need to figure out what is important.
One of my favoite quotes is: "NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED, NOTHING UNREAL EXISTS, AND THEREIN LIES THE PEACE OF GOD".
The best advice I can give to anyone is to simply trust the POTTER, BECAUSE WE ARE THE CLAY. He will have his way with us either way, but life can be so much sweeter when we understand our role.
God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and until we give up our thoughts we will never see His.
There is nothing more refreshing, no better medicine than the innocence of a child. That is all God wants from us really, to enjoy our innocence and He is returning us to that state.
Good post.
Love that quote!
For the first time in my life I am at peace and this is so important to me. I am learning to take caution when opening my mouth on any subject. I am learning to take notice to how others are affected by me and at the same time I am learning not to care what anyone else thinks. I am learning to sit back and watch. I don’t need to respond to everything because it doesn’t matter what I think. It just doesn’t matter. I am going to focus my energy on ME and what is important to me. I will do what I need to do in order to achieve peace. What I may think is important may not at all be important to anyone else and I don’t need it to be important to anyone else. Life will bring me joy and life will bring me struggles and these things will happen to me. How I respond to it may affect others in their own ways, but ultimately it will be me who has to deal with it.
God sits silently and patiently while I take my time through my journeys. He knows he is in my heart, but it is up to me to acknowledge it. Once I did acknowledge it I have found no fear in anything. I feel at peace and that is what is important to me.
After reading this it is like a breath of fresh air to the heart and mind.We are all in Fathers hands a loving Father.
I thank God for you all and for the joy and love that you bring to many on the web.
Love in Christ Dan
Great post bro. I am spending my 5th day at Methodist Hospital in Indy. One of our nephews was involved in a single car accident on state road 67 heading towards Albany. There is no real prognosis and the family is just waiting for things to take their course. It hurts. I can honestly say though that this is the first time that I have been involved in a situation where a life will be lost, but I don’t have to dread what will happen to him beyond…I know and have peace that Russ will be at peace and in the Fathers arms when this is all over with. To me that is what is important right now.
Thanks to all for your comments.
PJ……My thoughts and warmest wishes are with you and the family in this difficult time, and you are so right about knowing our loving Father’s arms are always holding us.
Nice thoughts, Cliff!
The only thing that seems to matter to me any more, is to share the peace and joy I’m experiencing, and offer the same revelation to others that was offered to me. Self-righteousness is such a waste. We puff ourselves up, then fight to stay there. We think WE are the reason God’s love manifests, but then doubt sets in because we know we can’t trust ourselves. With doubt, then comes fear, because we understand that our faith will fail us… over and over again. It’s a terrible place to live. Trust in ourselves and our ability to stand “correct” before God, will rob us of life. It grieves me when I encounter someone who just can’t understand that, and choose to trust in their own faith in God, rather than trust in God’s faith in us. It seems like a minor point, but it is the difference between abundant life, and just getting by.
pj my thoughts are with your family my own son was in a car crash 2 years ago we went through hell with the worry and shock of it all.We almost losted him.So i do know the pain this can bring.
kenneth
Cliff, loved the post.
kenneth
PJ,
You and your family are in my thoughts.
Cliff, I met you at the Grace Gathering this past summer. You guys blew me away! I was a “newbie” but I am now thoroughly enjoying my freedom in Christ. My family worries, too. But you know what? If God loves us and Christ died for us, maybe they need to remind us again just exactly what it is they are so anxious for us to worry about!
Peace,
Mike Ogden
Mike, Glad to hear from you and that you are enjoying this awesome peace. Once you taste it there’s no going back.
Hi
I am new to your site.
My journey began with GOD revealing HIS great love for me. I think that has been the most transforming thing in my life. Even tho I had been a Christian for many years, this LOVE healed me and I am so grateful now for this restful journey with GOD. Then HE opened my eyes to see the redemption of all people that took place before the foundation of the world, but manifested in time to us… GOD must do these things, man cannot… and we do glory and give HIM all the praise for what HE has done and is doing and will do. As it says in Daniel..GOD does HIS will on the earth and among men..
Blessings
Connie
Connie, So nice to hear from you and glad to know that you are being awakened to His unconditional love. You are so right in saying that it is God that must do these things. I will be looking foward to hearing more from you.
Hi everyone
Just reading everything and I have to say it’s great
I am going through a very rough time right now where even the grace of God I was taught I am beginning to question so I guess the only thing left is to start over
Cliff your doing a great job I am just going to keep reading and trust God to make sense of it all
Jennifer
Jennifer, It really is only an illusion to think it is in our hands. We play a part in our peace here on earth, but ultimately it is all in God’s Hand and that is a peaceful thought.
Jennifer, have you heard about Mother Teresa’s private journal writings? She wrote for years and was in a desperate place. Outwardly she was appearing as a saint who had a wonderful walk with GOD, inwardly she was not feeling HIM and going through a tough time with her faith. This is part of our refining I believe, that we walk by faith, not by sight. GOD has a journey for each of us and it will inlude trials. I am in a tough place myself so I can relate to you, but I am grateful that faith rises up in me (which is HIS gift and fruit) and it keeps me. HIM in us is the victory.
Blessings to you as you keep your eyes fixed on HIM.
Connie
What a wonderful comment Connie.
Thanks Connie
I’ve never heard them but I am going to check into finding them
Your right we do not walk by sight
Yes faith is rising up within me I will hang on tight and know His love is always there for me no matter what
Jennifer
Again thanks Cliff your wonderful words of encouragement have made more sense to me today than this past yr has
Again thank you
Jennifer wrote:
Yes faith is rising up within me I will hang on tight
Jennifer,
PLEASE do NOT hang on, but let go! When you let go of your faith and trust you will then have no place to fall but into HIS FAITH and Trust!
I know it may seem like the same thing said a different way but it really is not. It is TOTALLY different and it will revolutionize your life!
Peace
Geo
Great comment Geo…Yes Jen its about GOD doing it in you, not you doing it in you. There is an amazing scripture and one of my favorites in Phil.2:12 & 13,,,It is GOD who works in you to make you willing and able to do HIS will. Wow…do you hear that? He is the one who works in your will to make you willing and then HE also gives you all the abilities you need!! GOD is determined to finish what HE began in all HIS creation. HE is committed to you, so rest and HE will do it. You need do nothing, yet you will be motivated in HIS timing and will end up working out what HE works in as those verses say. We just rest, trusting in HIS commitment to us and LOVE (another name for GOD) never fails, and will never fail to work in us. Just as your fleshly organs that GOD created function effortlessly, so is the spiritual organ, it functions by GODS HOLY SPIRIT.HE will move in you and through you….just watch and see…
What a marvelous rest this is… we prove it to be true as we walk it out.
Con