It All Starts With God

So today, I decided to re-read my Purpose Driven Life (because I never had the time to actually finish it up to the very end). It was probably because I was just reading it all on my own and I have no such accountability partner to read it with. So this time, I now have my best ever best friend with me to be my partner! I love her very, very much! I hope from this point on wards, we'll continue to grow much deeper in Christ together, helping each other out


Anyway, to be honest, the first time I read the first chapter… it was nothing new to me.  Day 1 talks about how God is the center of everything we do how everything started with God and how our purpose can be found in God. I already knew everything written in there and I thought that it was just that. I never thought I would actually gain a new lesson again with it.

The same time last year, I was so active and "on-fire" in serving God. I wanted to do everything for Him and so I started to offer Him everything that I do. That ended up in my drawings containing God's words. As you can see, some of my deviations in my gallery are from my devotions and some are just simply illustrations to show how I felt about God. I thought that this was the best I could do for Him, and since I loved drawing, I decided to use this to serve Him. Little did I know these things that I do for Him became my "purpose" in life. I became so obsessed in drawing everything for Him until I got to the point that I ran out of any ideas to draw and I lacked inspiration to continue.

And going back to the book, I was reminded of how God created us by His purpose and for his purpose. And reflecting on my own actions, I saw that I created "my own" purpose. I felt ashamed of myself. I wanted to serve God and do His purpose but I ended up using God for my own will. At first, I thought that I was doing something good… since my works are glorifying God. But… do they really glorify God? What part of them glorifies God when I wasn't thinking of God when I did those things? God became my excuse to cover up my own selfishness. I didn't want to go out of my comfort zone so I decided that I'll just draw for Him. I thought that I am giving God the best I could do when in fact I wasn't actually giving it all to Him. I wasn't fully using my abilities and just focused on one of them. He doesn't want me to give Him a partial of my skills… He wants me to use ALL of my skills for Him!


Because we've been Christians for so long we tend to develop the habit of making God as an excuse for doing things. And that is totally wrong. WAKE UP CHRISTIANS! We were made for God, not vice versa!

Life is about letting God use you for His purposes, not your using Him for your own purposes.   ~PDL (Day1)


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_{And that's what I wanted to share with you guys! I pray that you guys will also strive to seek God everyday
GOD BLESS YOU!!}