A little wake up call

Today was one of those days where I got a a little wake up call from the Lord that was much needed. He kicked my butt today and really convicted me on somethings, especially in trying to grow in relationships with people.

First this morning I read a passage from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers and it kicked my butt. It was about how I am not my own and that I was bought at a price. The big thing that hit me was he was talking about heart break and how God has to break our hearts to lead to His purposes. This quote from the passage really struck me " If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?" I'd encourage you just take a moment and think about this. This was something that really hit me this morning and convicted me about how I have been reacting to how my heart has been broken lately.

Then Brad's message this morning at church on growing richer in relationships really hit me and hit right on a area where I am struggling in right and have struggled with for a while and that is relationships. He talked about how its not good to be a so called "one man band" in the Christian life, we need to be in relationship with one another and not isolate ourselves from others. He gave four reasons why people tend to not want to be in fellowship with others and they were being busy, efficiency and productivity, pain and selfishness. This really convicted me because I have used all these excuses (especially being busy and pain) at one point to not be in fellowship. This message really convicted me on the fact that I need to be in fellowship and that I can't keep isolating myself. I would really encourage you to listen to the message, you can download it from stonebrooke's website.