Oh To Truly Live...

I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want to be one who stands out of the crowd, not because of how I look, or what I’ve achieved, but because of who I am and Who I represent. I want people to know  that I follow Christ just by looking at me. By the way I walk, talk, treat others, smile, and the glimmer in my eyes, the way I live my life. I want to leave a legacy of hope. Something that when people look back on my life,  they will know that there is something worth living for, and that 'something' is Christ (“for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”). I want people to start thinking about the hope they can have in the Lord by seeing the way I lived my life. I need to make a change in my life. I need to sit less and walk more. I need to go out and do.  I need to prepare. I need to be disciplined in the way I live my life and every aspect of it. I need to stop caring about what I want and start thinking about what God wants. I need to take risks for my King. I need to stop  worrying about how I’m going to make things happen and finally believe that God has it in control. I need to stop taking things into my own hands, and lift them up to God. I need to pray more, I need to read more, trust more, listen more, say yes more, serve more, be open more. I need to leave fear behind because my God has already won, He has conquered death, He has saved me from death and brought me to new life! He has made me  free and I need to take advantage of the freedom and use it for His glory! Finally, I need to step into the life  that He has created me for and I need to do it in faith. It's there, He's waiting, the life I have always dreamed  of is a 'yes' away. I am choosing to say yes to God. Though I am human, and perfection is not mine to have,  I know the One who IS perfection. Lord, Abba! Please help me in this life You have given me. I choose to  follow You for the rest of my life! From this day forward. I belong to no one and nothing but You.