05/24/2026
Good morning! On this Pentecost Sunday I pray that the Holy Spirit will fill our hearts with His presence to guide us in truth, courage, and compassion each day. Today’s thought is; “A Purposeful Life”. Please share it so it touches many more hearts. Social media points a wagging, accusatory finger at us that says why can’t you live at the speed of rush like everybody else. Why is their home cleaner than ours. How do they get their kids to be such cooperative respectful little humans that get along with each other? They even feed their dinner guests (really) with food from their gardens. And those delicious looking recipes! Do they really make them all? We fill our days with so much activity, physically rushing from place to place, activity to activity, task to task that there is little or no time for anything or anyone else. Our dogged pursuits, desires and wants overtake and erase our needs. Or we spend so much time remotely viewing how others seemingly have, excel at and succeed in everything, that we become physically inactive and mentally stagnant. But what if all the above is just attempts to keep up with or chase the wrong purpose, desires and goals? Do you really want your life to look like a mirror image of someone else’s? Do you really want to look back at the end of the day and see nothing memorable? The best life you can have is a God-centered life not a self-centered one. God loves you not because of what you do, but because who He is. He sent His only begotten Son to die for our sins. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” There is nothing you can do to earn His love, it is a gift, it is everlasting, unchanging and will not fluctuate with our failures. He shows us that love through undeserved grace and mercy. When scheduling your lives around what you see (and watch) others do, remember the schedule you set will decide how you live your life. How you live your life decides how you will spend eternity. Choose wisely! Do things on purpose for a purpose. Live with the end in mind; know your purpose because your purpose will drive your priorities. All of God’s actions flow out of His vision, passion, purpose and plan.
Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (NIV)
Ephesians 2:10: "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (NIV)
SPIRIT FED, SPIRIT LED, SPIRIT DRIVEN
HLJohnson
