Learning to live for HIS glory

I know it's been awhile . . . alot has been happening lately and it's been a challenge to process it all.  I didn't even want to think about trying to put it in a readable fashion that would make sense as a blog entry!  I still don't have all the answers (I'm realizing I never will.), but I think I'm at the point where I can verbalize the main lesson that God has been teaching me lately.  This:  Sometimes God has to take us where we don't want to go--in order to get us where He wants us to be.  It's been a hard truth to learn, and in all honesty I can't say I've completely accepted it yet, but I'm getting there.  It's not a comfortable reality, but that brings up the theme of this "learning to live for HIS glory."  That theme being, that life is NOT about our comfort--instead it's about His glory.  And even in the midst of uncomfortable situations we can trust Him to work all things out for good.  :) To God be the glor...

As God continues to challenge me in this area of living every moment of every day in His presence I'm learning that that's the starting point for quite a few other lessons.  In actuality, I am living in His presence every moment of every day, the question is whether I'm living in awareness of His presence. As I try to put this lesson into practice in my life, I'd like to share a few of the things I'm learning through it: When I'm living in the awareness of His presence I start to see people through His eyes.  And when I see them through His eyes, it becomes easier to love them with His heart. I'm less concerned about my comfort and more concerned about His glory.  Last night I was reading It's Not About Me by Max Lucado, in there he talks about 2 Corinthians 4:17, which says, "For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison."  He's talking about the brevity of life when compar...