The Answer is ...
Well, what was your answer to the question posed earlier today? What is ‘the one thing I knowingly strive to accomplish every day?’
As we consider this year’s ministry theme of Investing Wisely this is a key question.
Please don’t lower your sights to just aim at completing another day of work. Don’t limit your goal to just love your spouse and your family. Maybe it is just to get back to bed each night. These are each good goals, but there is a higher target for us to aim at that will bring each of these goals into a heavenly focus.
I would propose that the one thing you should knowingly strive to accomplish every day from the moment your feet hits the ground in the morning, till the moment they are drawn back into bed at night is:
To be led by the Holy Spirit in all I think and do
If we are continually being led by the Holy Spirit throughout our day then we are being fashioned by God into Christ’s image. Note Romans 8 where the work of the Holy Spirit is noted in v. 26 (“And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness”) but the end of His work in our lives is noted in v. 29 “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren.”
So, will you make this your daily goal? Begin your day tomorrow praying that the Lord will guide you by His Spirit through your day.I am sure you will then realize what it means to be a person of purpose.
“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.”
—Galatians 6:9