Life as it Should Be

Lion Chasers' Manifesto

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
Grab life by the mane.
Set God-sized goals.
Pursue God-ordained passions.
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution.
Stop repeating the past and start creating the future.
Stop playing it safe and start taking risks.
Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences.
Enjoy the journey.
Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can.
Live like today is the first day and last day of your life.
Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God.
Burn sinful bridges.
Blaze a new trail.
Criticize by creating.
Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks.
Don't try to be who you're not.
Be yourself.
Laugh at yourself.
Quit holding out.
Quit holding back.
Quit running away.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson.

Spiritual Walk Links and Sayings

• Longsuffering and how to act

• "You cannot overcome what you are willing to tolerate!"
• "We must get to the place where we get our joy from obedience."
• "When a student takes a test, the teacher is always silent."

• Discontent
  

Cost of Love

Love does not exist without pain. People morn with those who morn. You feel their pain. If you never suffer, you never loved.

Where You're At

Embrace the season you are in. Many times we wish we were on the next season wishing this one was over. By living this way we wish our whole life away and miss every opportunity God gives us.

Ecclesiastes 3

A Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.

Truth

Enjoy the little things- one day you'll look back and realize they're big things. From Jenni Weiss' blog.

Onward Christian Soldier

Soldiers make sacrifices. We are enlisted to Christ and serve Him only. We need to listen to orders. We will wrestle or nestle with God. When you stop having war your mind grows weak and wanders.
Need to remain alert. Soldiers stop fighting when their conviction for the cause has been lost.
We worship whatever we make the most sacrifices for.

Look Up

Here is an email sent to me and two other accounts relating to it.

• Hey Aaron, I woke up this morning thinking about you and wondering how your spiritual walk is going. One of the shows on Disney (this is weird) came into my head while I was thinking about it and the main theme song is "get in the game". So today - let's do what we're supposed to do - look up.

• Even though the Word warns us that these things will happen, it's never easy to see any form of suffering overtaking the innocent. Please join us in prayer today and remember to look up, for our only redemption, hope, and salvation comes from HIM.

• There is a civil war waged between the new heart and the old nature. Romans 7–8 describes it quite well. Part of me doesn’t want to love my neighbor—not when his son just backed his car into my Jeep and smashed it up. I want to take the little brat to court. Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about long-suffering—no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk. And that is the part I must crucify daily, give no ground to, make no alliance with. It’s not the true me (Rom. 7:22). It’s my battle with the flesh. We all know that battle well.