The smile of God is the goal of your life...
Stars,
I have watched you at practice and last night I enjoyed watching you have fun in the continuing series of "The game of our lives". You were the stronger team but you gave the other team an opportunity to place with the best. Your professionalism, your sheer enjoyment of the game and your sweetness of spirit made you great role models for them.
I am studying "The purpose-driven life" book by Rick Warren and I will share thoughts from that with you during the next several weeks.
In the film Chariots of Fire, Olympic runner Eric Liddell says,
"I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God's pleasure."
Later he says, "to give up running would be to hold Him in contempt."
There are no unspiritual abilities, just misused ones. I am so proud of you for having started using your God-given abilities when you are so young. Use them, always, for God's pleasure.
God gains pleasure in watching you enjoy His creation and His gifts. Every act of enjoyment becomes an act of worship when you thank God for it.
Your parents and your coaches do not require you to be perfect in order to enjoy your presence in their lives. We enjoy you at every stage of your development. In the same way God is not waiting until you make the college basketball team or the WNBA before He starts loving you. He loves you and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.
Young as you are, I want to encourage you to make pleasing God your deepest desire. When you live in the light of eternity, your focus will change from "how much pleasure am I getting out of life?" to "How much pleasure is God getting out of my life?"
Will you make pleasing God the goal of your life? There is nothing that God will not do for the young girl totally absorbed with this goal.
Go on, have fun, He enjoys that too.
Life Coach
I have watched you at practice and last night I enjoyed watching you have fun in the continuing series of "The game of our lives". You were the stronger team but you gave the other team an opportunity to place with the best. Your professionalism, your sheer enjoyment of the game and your sweetness of spirit made you great role models for them.
I am studying "The purpose-driven life" book by Rick Warren and I will share thoughts from that with you during the next several weeks.
In the film Chariots of Fire, Olympic runner Eric Liddell says,
"I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God's pleasure."
Later he says, "to give up running would be to hold Him in contempt."
There are no unspiritual abilities, just misused ones. I am so proud of you for having started using your God-given abilities when you are so young. Use them, always, for God's pleasure.
God gains pleasure in watching you enjoy His creation and His gifts. Every act of enjoyment becomes an act of worship when you thank God for it.
Your parents and your coaches do not require you to be perfect in order to enjoy your presence in their lives. We enjoy you at every stage of your development. In the same way God is not waiting until you make the college basketball team or the WNBA before He starts loving you. He loves you and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.
Young as you are, I want to encourage you to make pleasing God your deepest desire. When you live in the light of eternity, your focus will change from "how much pleasure am I getting out of life?" to "How much pleasure is God getting out of my life?"
Will you make pleasing God the goal of your life? There is nothing that God will not do for the young girl totally absorbed with this goal.
Go on, have fun, He enjoys that too.
Life Coach
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