Under the Mud.

Nobody really likes to go deep. Who wants to stop and look deep within to see what is going on. It’s hard. It hurts. It’s uncomfortable.

But what happens when we don’t--when we live our lives on a surface level, only experiencing things in an external sense and never looking at its effect on us. What happens when we really fail to live? Where is the meaning of life in that?

We must be conscious of our thoughts and actions and of how we live our lives. Is this the life I want to live? Am I being the person that I was created to be? The best person that I can be? It’s hard to discover who you are. I think that it is a life process—something that is always changing and never ending.

We need to be living and learning. We need to be doing. But also at the same time, we need to be constantly evaluating our lives, our actions, our values.

Our lives inevitably affect those around us. Because of our fallenness and brokenness, we are sinful, selfish, and broken people. So often I am trying to fill my own needs that I fail to stop and really think about the needs of others.

I ask that my life would be Spirit-led and not Flesh-led. Christ-centered not self-centered.