Day two of the convention and it was wonderful. The theme was what are you living for? What is your vision for your life? What is the driving force of your life? Don’t be fooled, God is not mocked, whatever we sow to that we shall reap. And sometimes we think we can fool God but really we’re fooling ourselves and others and wasting time. I can’t pretend to be in the church and sowing to the spirit when really in my heart I am sowing to the flesh. I lived a lot of my life like that and I can tell you, it’s tiring! God sees our heart and we cannot forget that.
This led me to take stock of the past year and truly in my heart ask myself whether God was the driving force of my life. And I have to admit quite often He wasn’t but I want to get to that place where my love for God and my relationship with Him is the source of all my decisions. We were also asked what our priority has been throughout the past year. Ayo! After allowing the Lord to search my heart, I realised what my priority had sometimes been this year. It hadn’t always been to know the Lord more, it hadn’t always been to draw closer to Him, it always hadn’t been to serve Him more in humility and sincerity, it hadn’t always been to share the gospel more...but really sometimes my priority had been for me to make people to think that those were my priorities. How wicked my heart is in deceiving itself. I was doing all those things but sometimes the goal of doing them deep down in my heart was so people would know that was my priority which in fact meant that wasn’t my priority. I invested much time in blogging what the Lord was teaching me and I invested much time in letting people know what He was doing in my life. Lord please forgive me for those times when my heart wasn’t right and please make my heart pure in sharing what You are teaching me. It’s amazing how God’s light shines and shows the true state of our hearts so we can repent and continue on the road marked out before us. I wasn’t too surprised to find that’s what was in my heart but I was disappointed that I hadn’t asked the Lord to search my heart sooner. Anyway it was His perfect timing now and I’m ever so grateful for it!
Today we were prayed for to be clear in our stand for the Lord and to leave all the things of this world that so easily entangle us. It was so powerful and I felt a fresh vision, purpose and direction for my life.
I had a wonderful day with my team. We had fun with all the sports in the afternoon and the Lord is continuing to unite our hearts for Him!
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