Seven Journaling Jots to Inspire You #Week 34
Have NO regrets....
My weekly personal note:
(Skip down to the weekly journal jots if you prefer.)
Good afternoon,
It feels good to be at my desk punching the keyboard again. Words, doodling, and designing…. I thrive on it. :D
I had a young person text me earlier today, saying, “I don’t know what I want to do in life. But I feel like I will regret it someday not doing what it is that I wanted to do.”
Some of my response is the following…
When we start to compare ourselves to what others seem to be doing, we can become dissatisfied and feel like we’re missing out.
(Side note: I think Hollywood movies can also stir up this feeling that life must be so exciting out there, compared to our own lives.)
Our biggest regret someday will be when we stand before God and wished we had served Him more in the ministry and given Him more of our time.
God is drawing you to Him and you will never feel satisfied or fulfilled until you’ve given your life fully to Him.
David said in Psalm 17:15b, “I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.”
So, in other words, we’ll feel dissatisfied until we become more like Him.
How do you do that? By seeking and building a relationship with God. Read His love letter more. Listen to God’s message at church and not let ourselves daydream. Just be faithful in the things of God and He will slowly and surely reveal His will for your life.
God has not given up on you, nor me! May I encourage you, readers, to strive in being faithful to God?! We will NEVER regret living for God!
Keep walking in faith,
Rhonda White
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” - Psalm 51:10 kjv
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7 Journal Jots: (Use these ideas for your own journal or ministry)
Reputation is what folks think I am, but character is who GOD knows I am.
“If you try to be what you ain’t — you won’t be what you is!” - Henry Ward Beecher
“Every day of the year, we can and should be planting seed by witnessing, giving out tracts, thus spreading the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ and His saving Gospel.” - Dr. Tom Wallace [Plants those seeds!]
“If you don’t have the practice of reading the BIBLE every day, you are not walking in God’s light.” Dr. Tom Malone (Thy WORD is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105)
“There are only four chapters in the Bible where SIN is not an emergency: Genesis 1&2 and Revelation 21 & 22.” Pastor Don Ohm (Oh, put the importance of ridding SIN out of your life!)
“Worrying about what might happen places us in a prison of agony about tomorrow’s happenings that may not even happen!” Dr. Tim Green
QUESTION: How well do you handle confrontation? One thing to remember is that we don’t always have to have the last word. We don’t always have to prove we are right.
Proverbs 15:1 says, “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
A quote I wrote in my journal this week says, “When you are wrong — be quiet…when you are right…shut up! (A wry smile is satisfaction enough!)” - Dr. Tim Green