What’s On Your Agenda?
We all have our own thoughts about our lives. We have plans, purposes and even some pursuits we would like to follow. We have likes and dislikes, hopes and dreams and some of us have great big visions of what we want to accomplish in our lives before we die.
Some people just live out their lives with a “what will be, will be” attitude. They are also the ones who usually end up disappointed with what life brings as life is not an upward positive flow, but rather a downward flow until death. We have to be somewhere in the middle of pushing all the time and doing nothing all the time in life.
The root of all our lives is our hidden agenda; who are we in the secret place of our hearts? Are we set on a path that we are pushing to fulfill at all cost? Are we floating through life letting what passes us by be our choices, grabbing little pieces that are easy to reach? Maybe we are somewhere in the middle, allowing life to help us make choices sometimes, and grabbing with great zeal some ideas that we pursue. Who we are inside, will determine our future.
Others are involved
One thing we sometimes forget is that all our decisions are affected by those around us. Other people keep interfering with our dreams. They won’t let us become beach bums and still have money to eat. A man with small children can’t buy that two-seater sports car. A woman with ambition is looked upon as a brassy fishwife. While I realize these are sarcastic statements about life, you get the picture that life is not a one-person show. We are intimately involved with all the people in our lives. They may be encouragers or they may rain on our lovely dream. It is the inside person that will either fight for the future or give up on life. Sometimes we must live with compromise, which is not always a bad thing, just different from what we thought it would be.
Don’t forget Jesus!
As a Christian, we really need to add one other person to our agenda visions, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have surrendered our lives to Him. We have entrusted our eternity to His keeping, yet we tend to want to keep our agenda to ourselves. We still want to do things according to our will and desires. This one issue is a battle of wills. Will we surrender all? Will, we chose to trust Jesus to lead us forward? Will we be content allowing Him to choose some adventures ahead for us? Mmmm, well, it takes a lot of courage and fearlessness to take that leap of faith and jump into the future not being in charge of all our own lives. Yes, the daily decisions are still ours; we have to daily choose to include Him in our life choices. Have you ever had the courage to ask Him what is on His agenda? Are you willing to adjust your own plans to fit into His? What an adventure it can be to rest and trust in God’s great love for us. He sees the world from a different point of view. His dreams are so much bigger than ours could ever be! Let’s choose to follow after what He sees ahead and change our agenda to fit His.
The Bible has some great things to say about this:
Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Proverbs 18:20
A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.
Proverbs 6:12-15
12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
