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Me:\u00a0 Look at all the flowers that grew!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Yes, I am growing where I am planted.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Yes, we should all try to do that.<\/p>\n

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This is from the book Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl by Lysa Terkeurst<\/p>\n

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Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one lump assignment with a big title and complete job description.\u00a0 I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.<\/p>\n

Each day, a seed embraces the task placed before it.\u00a0 Today it might have to embrace the dark soil it has been pushed into.\u00a0 Tomorrow, it might be not resisting the water that makes it literally disintegrate and fall apart.\u00a0 And then in a week or two, a green shoot pushes up and out of the deep, dark, messy place.\u00a0 Eventually, the seed sprouts and reveals exactly what is was always meant to be.\u00a0 The seed’s potential is unlocked and its purpose is revealed through embracing each and every circumstance God brought its way.\u00a0 Isn’t it glorious how nature doesn’t resist God?\u00a0 Sadly, too many of God’s people cannot say the same.<\/p>\n

So, just for today I will love this way.\u00a0 Just for today, I am making the choice to not settle.\u00a0 Just for today, I will not let the subtly influences of pride and thinking I know what is best for me overshadow my desire for more of God in my life.\u00a0 Today, I will believe with absolute certainty.\u00a0 Today, I will obey with complete surrender.\u00a0 Today, I will seek with complete abandon.\u00a0 For doing this is fulfilling the purpose for which I was created…not to bring myself glory by some great accomplishment but to bring God glory by making Him my greatest heart’s desire.<\/em><\/p>\n

O God, let me make that choice today.\u00a0 Even if it is just for a day–how I long for it to be more–but even if it is just for today, may it be completely so.\u00a0 For one day completely with You is truly, truly better than a thousand elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Psalm 30:1<\/p>\n

I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up , and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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