I woke up this morning wondering what I could do for my
country.
I have wanted to rush off and start a campaign, to create
posters, to advertise on TV. I listened
to the voice that directed me, and It tells me to love myself, to start a
family, to make sure I feel beautiful today.
I have wanted to go and help and assist and provide for all
of the people in need. I was told to
make sure I was confident in the direction I was going first.
I have wanted to start a business that will teach and change
people to make millions so that I have influence, and push it through to
completion. I was directed to be like
the Lilies of the Field, and that if I trust in the Voice, I will be provided
for.
I have wanted to follow the path that the rest of the world
points out to me – that of career, “responsibilities” (which is often only
another way of saying “distrust” in anything higher than me to provide for me),
and the “realities of life.” I have been
told that politics and business and the economy determine my destiny, and that
I must fight these battles against other people in order to have a place in
this world. Instead, my directing Voice
tells me that I am to be still – even in the world of 2012 – and I shall know who
is God.
As I pondered these things this morning, wondering how it is
that I can focus on small, individual things like this when the world is in
such chaos – and even worrying that unless I join the fray, what I truly care
about will be lost, when the following realization came to me once again:
It was not intended that we find a way to make ourselves
free, happy, and prosperous on our own.
Our human efforts, no matter how great they are, can never free us. It was never intended that they could. We have only two options. We either serve the God of this Land, who is
the God of the whole earth; or we serve something else. If we serve something else, we will never be
free.
When I say that I am committed to doing whatever it takes,
to doing my part regardless of any cost, I really mean it. Sometimes, though, more often than not, my
part starts with being able to look at myself in the mirror today and say “I
love you.” There are generals who would rather face an army of enemy tanks than
do that. But unless we are willing to do
that, how can we possibly do any of the rest?
How can God guide and save people who will do anything for Him except
receive His love?
So today, and every other day, I am in it to do my part, now
and forever. I am not waiting until the
next Presidential Cycle, or the economy to crash, or war to happen in my own or
other lands. I am in it to truly live in
a way that the God of this land wants me to live, all the time, every day,
today.
