Living Spirit Filled

“So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you.” Ephesians 5:15-18

I just don’t want to talk God’s Word yet never live it out. I don’t want to spend time studying, only to walk away forgetting what I have studied.

I don’t want to live one way around certain people than another around others.

I don’t want to be greedy, ungrateful, selfish, angry, bitter, jealous, hurtful, ugly, sinful, or spew meanness and gossip from my mouth.

I don’t want to be like the world, or a spectator in Church. I don’t want to be concerned only about myself or do things that please only me.

I don’t want to be grumpy or rude, lazy or careless.

I don’t want to be an average mommy or a mommy who dumps her kids off at Church for others to teach them the Word of God.

I want to be joyful, grateful, humble, loving, kind, patient, merciful, forgiving, and thankful, a hard worker, a peace maker, an encourager, a servant, an example, and a teacher.

I want to be a woman who is filled with grace, and whose complete identity is found in Christ. I want to be confident, faithful, trustworthy, and committed. I want to lead by example and show my children what a life lived for Christ is all about.

I want to live in such a way that people see only Christ and not me.

I know this is all a work in progress, but I am thankful to be marked as God’s child by the Holy Spirit who is working in me and helping me become the woman Christ designed me to be.

Jesus thank You for the great Counselor who is living and working within me!  Help me to become all You have designed me to be. Amen