Yesterday was the 2nd day of the month and God followed suit with the first day in how he spoke.  It is amazing to me that all you have to do is ask God to speak revelation to you and he will do it. I decided that along with doing my daily devotional that I would begin also reading the Purpose Driven life by Rick Warren.  A friend of mine started reading it a while back ago and he said it helped him out, so I thought that now would be the opportune time to use that as another resource for God to speak through. 

Purpose Driven Life (Day 1 of Book) - It’s About God
Daily Devotional - Where your Heart is

So both of my devotional’s pointed at the same topic yesterday, lining up your motives.  I realized after reading them, that I all to quickly go to God for breakthrough for myself, and the people that I care about, but I can’t say that my motives are always 100% selfless.  Most of the time, the breakthroughs that I seek, while not outside of the Will of God, will somehow some way touch my life directly.  It is so easy to get caught up in seeking God for things, that I tend to get wrapped up in my own personal agenda.  What is God doing for me?  Will God bless my purpose? What do I want to do with my life?  What the word reminded me yesterday was that we are called to be living sacrifices.  It is not about what we want at all.  It is all about the Glory of God.  I might be a great singer, but if that is not what God has called me to do to fullfill HIS purpose on earth then I am just talented.  I think that is the difference between talent and annointing.  When you are annointed to do something, God doesn’t annoint you for your own personal gain (although that is most often a byproduct).  He does it so that you can live out HIS purpose on earth, to bring Glory to His name. 

Speaking for myself only, I know that I tend to get caught up in I.  I want, I deserve, I need, I hurt, I did.  I forget that the only I that matters is the I-is ness of God.  He is the Alpha and Omega, The beginning and the End, the First and the Last.  He has promised that if we delight ourselves in Him he will give us the desires of our hearts.  My thought is, the more we delight ourselves in him, the more that our desires line up with His, the easier it is for Him to give us our desires, and the whole lovely cycle starts over..    It is pretty easy to delight ourselves in such a wonderful God.  The trick is not being conformed to the world in which we live, and learning to kill oru flesh daily.  God gives us a quick way to start to get there in Phillipeans 4:8.  He says “Whatsoever things are true.. noble.. just.. pure.. lovely.. of good report.. theris is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.”

Before we go to Him, we need to check our priorities, and ask the question, is whatever I am seeking Him for, whatever I desire, for His Glory or my own.  If it is the latter, I suggest going back, re-working, and trying again.  I know I am going to.