So I get this magazine every few months and the title on the front this time is The ultimate goal. I started reading it and the more I read the more I realized that it was what the Lord had been putting in my heart the last few weeks. I didn't know how I was going to go about blogging about it, because in my head I knew what I was thinking and feeling, but didn't know how to say it just right. My God always comes through for me and I am so glad that he does. This article gave me the angle in which this blog is going to come together.
The Ultimate Goal!
We know what we want, but we don't know why...
Goals give a sense of purpose and value to you efforts
You may not have ever seen this but when I was in college we went over this and I never really thought of it again until now, it was in this article and it reminded me how in most major corporations they use this type of system for there employees to set goals. Every year during Shannon's evaluation at work they make him write down his goals for the year. Many businesses do this to see how there employees value there job. Use it in your own life and see how you measure up to what you expect out of your own life.
Solomon was the ultimate goal setter, he understood the power of setting goals way back then. In studying a little bit about Solomon King of Israel I found out that he reigned for 40 years from 970 to 930 B.C. He was only around 20 years old when he started his reign. Solomon left more books than any other writer in the old testament other than Moses. Song of Solomon was written when he was young and romantic, Proverbs was written when he was mature and at the height of his powers, and Ecclesiastes when he had become more aged, and more cynical. His strengths were not on the battlefield, but in the realm of the mind: meditation, planning, negotiation, and organization. The Lord told Solomon in 1 Kings 3:12 (AMP) 12 Behold, I have done as you asked. I have given you a wise, discerning mind, so that no one before you was your equal, nor shall any arise after you equal to you. The Lord told him that he was no one was his equal and no one ever will be after him also. In 1 Kings 4:29-34 (AMP) 29 And God gave Solomon exceptionally much wisdom and understanding, and breadth of mind like the sand of the seashore. 30 Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all other men—than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. His fame was in all the nations round about. 32 He also originated 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. 34 Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. He told him that he was wiser than all other men, men came for all over to hear his wisdom. Wow! Under Solomon's leadership Israel reached its greater geographical extent and enjoyed the least violence of the entire kingdom period. Peaceful- the meaning of his name, describes his reign. I wanted to tell you this so that you would know why Solomon was concerned so wise. I am going do put in some scriptures and then write how they pertain to goals.
Goals have built-in power because they are promises we make to ourselves to be and do better.
Write goals down & revisit them often to help you keep on track
Matthew 6:25 (AMP) 25 Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
We apply many goals in an effort to obtain wealth to get food, drink, clothing, shelter, & entertainment. These goals are the "what" of life not the "why" without the "why" they are fatally flawed in the eternal sense.
Now the Ultimate Goal:
Matthew 6:32 (AMP) 32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
Matthew 6:33 (AMP) 33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.
The Kingdom of God is ultimately the glorified family of God. Our Goal is to live by the high standards of that family. So to be in that family is the Ultimate goal, That is why we were born.
Seek first His kingdom!
God Bless!
So wed. are our bible study days and we got together at sparkman park and let the kids play while we had bible study. We are studying revelation and it is a intense study but so glad we are doing it. We have been studying in revelation for some time now, but if you get indepth with it there is so much to get. I say get because it is so important that we realize what people are going to face if they don't choose the Lord! I don't know about you, but I am thankful that I have salvation and do not have to be thrown into the lake of fire. If you get the chance to study revelation do so. I really have a burden to get the word of God out to the unbelievers so that they can know the Love of God that I know. I know that many of you may not want to here what I have to say about God, but if you knew my heart you would know that I just want everyone to have this deep love for the Lord that I have. I have heard most of my life about how we are suppose to put the Lord first in our lives, I now know why, God is love and without him you can not truly love others or yourself. I have really been battling my mind about this blog and what I am suppose to do with it. The Lord put in my heart to use it to glorify Him and my mind wants to say ( no one cares what you think and people don't want to here about this all the time, you are crazy).I'm not crazy. The Lord had me start this blog and I am going to use it to glorify him. It may not be what ya'll want me to do with it, but I am. My life is revolved around the Lord first and foremost and I don't want to have it any other way. I know that ya'll may think that I am crazy and that is okay, because I just want to obey the Lord and be about His work, not mine!
Proverbs 3:1-6 (KJV) 1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
I love this passage and I think that it speaks for itself I pray that the people the Lord has me writing this for is truly blessed by my thoughts.God Bless!
