I Purpose to Engage.......

          LOVE!!!!!!

         

         I purpose to be "Engaging Love" was the theme that I picked for this month. Some might think I picked it just because Valentine's Day was this month but I had more of a reason then that. At the start of the month, when I was thinking what the theme would be, I was learning on how to have a closer love relationship with Christ in my Bible study. I wanted that kind of relationship too.

         I will say those few days really opened my eyes to what a love relationship looks like with God. I am still learning about it through that Bible study. Now I am learning how it is revealed to us, which is really interesting. God reveals it through three ways. Those ways are His Word, prayer, church, and situations. There is no better way to engage in God's Love then those three ways plus to be a part of the bigger plan He has for the world. Once you are engaged in His Love, He won't let you go. It takes a lot of trust and faith but is worth it in the end. I know I need to pray more about this kind of relationship. That is why I made a month worth of it.
          I can tell you that having these two things as my focus really helped me have a great Valentine's Day. Engaging in God's Love is something we need to do everyday, not one month out of the year. That is my new goal for life. Whatever it is like to engage in Love with Him, I will follow in Love. I will be honest here too. It just isn't about God's Love but that is the first one that I need to get in with and be on His side if I want other things to happen. If I want to have an adventurous life then I need God by my side. I am also thinking about showing God's Love to other people. 

          When I get so filled up with God's Love, I don't know what to do with it at times. That is when I pray to God about how does He want me to use and pass on that Love onto other people. I don't what to say that I do it every time because there are times that I forget or just don't feel like doing it. There are days that I want to love on the children I am around no matter how they behave and then there are days where I only have a limited amount of love and patience. I have noticed, though, when I pray for strength for the week or next day that is when I love better and actually take the time to get to know the children and/or people I am around. 

            That is why we have to ask God, on a daily basis, for His Love to be in us. We have to ask Him to let people see Him through us through our actions. I am a firm believe that actions show Love better then any words can and ever will. God shows us His Love through actions too most of the time but there are times where it is said too like maybe an answer to pray is someone saying something you needed to hear right at that moment. I have had a lot of thoughts about what to be engaged in when I first thought about this project back in January and I can even tell you some of the things I thought about. Those things were: in Ministry. Well, I guess that was my only other thing to be engaged with. 

             To me, though, before you do anything with any ministry you have to understand God's Love and that He is Love. That is His main characteristic. Nothing will work in that ministry if you don't understand that about God. I keep saying "in Love" and I typed that out at the start of this entry but then I got to thinking, I like "I purpose to engage Love" better and here is why. When you say "in Love", it seems like you are just talking about the feeling but when you say, "Love", that can be taken in two ways. You can stick with the love feeling or You can think about it as you are engaging in God but Love is just another name for Him. See what I am saying? So another name for God is how I am looking at it from now on. You could even put "engage the One and Only True Love".

             "I Purpose to Engage Love" is my theme and prayer this month and I need to be more active in praying that these last two weeks then I have ever been this month. You can tell I am thinking about it more, though, because I am not waiting until March to write on this month's idea. I would like to be a little earlier next month on the idea so I can remember to pray all month about it but we will see what happens. I do have it picked out already but you will just have to wait and see what it is til sometime next month.