Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Drive.
After reading the word prompt on twitter, I headed to bed thinking I had nothing. Upon waking, my mind was already thinking of the word prompt – Drive.
Could it be I had been thinking all night?
Everything in my life – each circumstance, joy, pain, disappointment, and blessing – seems to have been designed with one purpose.
Each one handcrafted and designed, perfectly orchestrated, to drive me to the One who created me. And the same is true for each one of us.
How can it be that we don’t see this? Or it is that we forget it?
Or maybe it’s because I spent time reading Abiding in Christ by Andrew Murray in recent days.
Jesus calls us to “Come” to Him, but it is not a one and done. We are to come to Him daily, and in so doing, we “Abide” in Him.
“Abiding in Jesus is nothing but the giving up of oneself to be ruled, taught, and led, enabling the disciple to rest in the arms of Everlasting Love.”
(page 134)
As we abide, we are also driven to press on and press in.
“It was because he [Paul] knew that the mighty and faithful One had grasped him with the glorious purpose of making him one with Christ that he did his utmost to grasp the glorious prize.”
(page 137)
Every day and challenge designed with one purpose –
to drive us closer to Himself.
“I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:12, NASB)
Beautifully spoken Joanne. Blessings. â¤
~Selah~
FMF#6
‘to drive us closer to Himself’. What a beautiful truth that will direct all we are and do if we allow it. Thank you for sharing.
I sorta kinda used to think
that God’s grand strategy
of pushing pain to the brink
to the point where I would be
driven closer to His side
by death of thousand cuts,
a place where I’d gladly abide
was, quite frankly, nuts.
But I know now that He did not send
the pain that makes each breath ordeal,
and while there are things He did mend,
He may not choose to heal
the cancer-wound that pierces me,
for it’s my vital ministry.
nicely written, I like it, glad I stopped in from FMF4
This is a profound truth, “Everything in my life ”“ each circumstance, joy, pain, disappointment, and blessing ”“ seems to have been designed with one purpose. Each one handcrafted and designed, perfectly orchestrated, to drive me to the One who created me.”
Good food for thought.
Thanks for sharing.
Well said – being closer to the Lord should drive everything I do. Press on to know the Lord.
Visiting from FMF#21