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So lately my priorities have been majorly out of whack. I've been putting things that I enjoy doing like hanging out, having fun, and doing whatever it is that I want to do. However I don't think it is suppose to be that way. My life needs discipline, a discipline that will cause this to happen in my priorities: 1. God 2. My husband 3. Everything else and last thing on my list should be myself. I've been doing things to satisfy my flesh, what makes me "feel" good, and not paying much attention to the One who loves me more than anyone. He desires our attention, our everything. More of Him and less of me. ~John 3:30

I need to clean up my life. Or should I say surrender myself to Him so He can clean up my life? Yeah, that is the best way. I would just mess it up if I tried to do it. I am nothing without Christ being number one in my life. My only need is HIM, and Him alone. He will take care of everything else, I just need to back off and let Him take it all. I am tired of trying to control my life, after all it's not about me. I want to get to a place where I am so open to what God has that when He says go, I say yes without questioning it. I want to be used where God can use me the most. Even if I don't understand and know what that plan is. He is faithful in and through it all. Even when we don't make Him #1 He is quick to forgive because we are His children and He loves us.

Thank You Jesus for being so constant. Heal this heart of mine. Take out anything that is not pleasing to You. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me. To You be the glory.

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  1. Stacy EcksteinOctober 10, 2008 at 11:18 PM

    Katie, you took the thoughts right out of my brain!

    My problem is that I am afraid of what surrendering my WHOLE being to Him means, what it truly means to make Him #1. I keep thinking of Abraham. Surrendering yourself to God is not just a decision, it's a MINDSET. And IT'S SO HARD to set my mind (like Abe did) to be willing to reject my loved ones for Him if need be...the ones who have been so good to me throughout my life.

    HOWEVER, He has been better. He has shown me PERFECT LOVE, without fail, all the time. He knows what's best for us. And like you said, this life is not about us, it's about HIM.

    I will be praying for you.

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  2. Sara EcksteinOctober 16, 2008 at 1:05 AM

    wow! what Godly women i have to look up to! you are both so humble in admitting weakness and even giving Him the reigns to clean up the mess we've made.

    thanks for being such God-fearing women. i'll be honest you're both very beautiful, yet your inward beauty is astounding...
    "charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." Proverbs 31:30

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