Intentional Thinking Verses Feelings

I have found that there is so much easy to say, but yet harder yet to do it. It is easy to say that I can keep my eyes on Jesus even in the storms, but yet when the storm comes it is so easy to look at the storm, see the trouble, see what I am facing and in doing so lose sight of what Jesus is trying to teach me. I have seen and continue to see that life has to be intentional, it isn't just when things feel good, or when I get the warm bubbling feeling, but it has to be even when I don't. If I look at all I have to be intentional about, I am surprised at how much it goes against the worlds point of view.

The world says, do it if it feels good to you, when you fall out of love it is over and there are so many more cases of this. If I base my choices on the world, I do not live intentionally. I can see that I need to do things not because they come naturally, but because it becomes a choice. Who said life would be easy, being a Christian doesn't mean that life will be easy. It is through being intentional that the difference is made.

In the Bible it says pray without ceasing, but to do this we need to be intentional about doing this, if I try to do it in my own power I will not be able to, it is about complete surrender, which also has to be intentional.

I live a life, it is by choice that I live this life, if I am going to live with a better frame of mind, I must be intentional about doing so, if I am going to see things for positive, I must be intentional in doing so. The excuses I have heard is it is to hard, it isn't natural and the list goes on, but I can honestly say that being intentional about things I do, it becomes more a part of who I am, then living just because I am alive.

Is it time to live intentionally, instead of just living. I want to live life intentionally and be the man that God calls me to be and I will have hard times, I will see the negative in things, I will struggle, but it is in all this that I am learning how to truly be. It is a battle, but I believe that with God all things are possible. He is the God of the I'm Possible.