This year has been a commitment to become more disciplined.  This has come in the form of purposeful study, purposeful planning and lots of reading!  It’s bearing some fruit.  Through the various ways I am pursuing more discipline, God is speaking.  I sit in the wonder of His words and purposeful ways with a purposeless people.  I meditate on the focus and discipline of my Savior to fulfill what was set before Him despite sacrifice and much pain.  I see a God who is speaking through the menial and the magnificent to get our attention and then provides His Spirit and His words to show us more.  I am amazed at how God continues to work to bring a people to Himself.  The cry of His heart exercised in extreme patience.

God has always had an end in mind.  All of life is groaning toward this end of bringing glory to Him.  The story of redeeming what we threw away and continuing to interact as we continue to ignore, is a story of purpose and great love.  God’s goal is for our best  . . . and His.  This might sound selfish to our sinful hearts, for how can God achieve what is best for Him and best for us?  This is foreign to our finiteness.  Yet, God is God and if God is the ultimate best of what is, than wouldn’t it stand to reason that elevating the very best puts everything in its rightful place?  Otherwise, we have disorder . . . hmmm.  God is purposefully calling, purposefully leading, purposefully redeeming through the purposeful redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  This encourages me.  For God is about making possible what is best for me and all of humanity, purposefully.  I’m enjoying this purposeful pursuit, I’m learning . . . . . .