"For the first time in a long time, I was required to STOP all of the worthy, kingdom-building things I was doing and take a look inside myself. Here's the question I sought and am still seeking to answer: "What do the poverty issues, the AIDS issues, the justice issues in our world demand of someone like me with the influence God graciously has given me?" This is an important question to answer because as a pastor, I believe my primary job is to teach what the Bible says about the great issues of the day. NOT SOME OF THE ISSUES, but ALL OF THEM. The number of times scripture mentions God's passionate concern for the poor, the oppressed, the widows, the orphans, those who are incarcerated, and those who have no voice is astounding!" - Bill Hybels (holy discontent)
This is exactly how I feel right now. There's a great value for me to keep doing what I am doing right now as a church leader because I believe every soul counts but there's that undeniable pain in my heart to reach out and share and speak to those people who have less opportunity to taste the beauty of this life we are given. My soul cries out to those who can't even have the glimpse of love in their oppressed life while we got all we have to let them have the feel of being loved. I only have one life, so as you! I want my one and only life be of the great value and worth by following my passion, my holy discontent for the people that will not just need my effort but I'm sure they will be the people that will show me and teach me how a great life can be. I want to have that life God intentionally design for me! How about you? James 4:14-15 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what isyour life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” This is what stirs Mr Bill's heart and leads him to that thinking, James 4:26-27 "If anyone of you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one self unspotted from the world." If you want to be a force for good, then, like David, you've got to choose to take action in the area of passion God has placed inside your heart.
-Bill Hybels (Holy Discontent) Reading is one thing I usually do while traveling by plane and I guess I needed to hear the part i just read. In the second part of the book where in Bill Hybels shares something on how we can develop our Holy Discontent once we all got figured it out. "When you find your holy discontent, FEED IT." - Bill Hybels We can't run away from the passion God has put into our hearts no matter how difficult it may seem. Most people will have the tendency to run away from it and just pretent to be deaf or blind when the Holy discontent, that thing they can't stand is frightening. We have to open our ears, our eyes, our heart and our soul so we can hear God leading us to our calling. We are all created for something. Be the next David. He couldn't stand the giant Goliath mocking his great God and he just had that fire within him to actually DO SOMETHING! Let's entertain that holy discontent, get closer to it and feed it. Someday, once your finally there working on that Holy discontent and enjoying it no matter how difficult it may be, I believe you and I can glance back in our life and we can totally say, It had been a life worth living for and I couldn't wait for more God. 😊😊😊 #passion #calling #travelinghobby #holydiscontent What do you feel when you see the sun rises and set? Sometimes i feel like it's too magical. Everywhere I travel I always take a photo of it. Then i will realize that it is one of the best act of God's love to us. Everytime the sun set then rises it signifies hope to all of us. It gives that hope that another day is over but God is giving us another day to make a new beginning, a freh start. Another day of another chance for us to make our lives right, another chance to figure out our purpose, another day to finally choose to be happy and peaceful and to love and to care and give. When ever the sun rises again it gives us HOPE that we are given another opportunity to do things we neglected to do, say words we kept unspoken, to forgive people who have hurt us, eat food we always wanted to try and simply make another moment that is worth adding to your life journey.
You? What do you feel whenever you see the sun set and rises again? Share your thoughts..😊😊😊 tag someone whom you wanted to have that another day and another chance to go crazy with and take the adventure of life with full of hope and FAITH..😊 Hebrew 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." #livelife #thankful #love #hope #faith #newbeginning #kainos #sunset #sunrise #Godscreation |
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