Thank You, Lord, for leading me to this passage this morning because this isn't where I had been heading. (Smile.) How true is this of life in general!
The Meetinghouse encouraged us to take some time to fill out a Growth Gauge questionnaire. It's a self assessment tool used to reflect on where we are in our walk with Jesus. I did mine this morning and find myself wrestling with some of the results as well as the idea of using such a tool to monitor my growth as a believer.
Smile. It seems to be the starting place for a whole whack of goal setting.
I am not sure how I feel about that. Perhaps it's because of the blog and the ability it gives me to look back on where I was and where I am now. It's a record of the times God has answered my heart's desire: to learn how love better. No goals required. Just trust. Praise God, that trust has proven fruitful because where I was is definitely not where I am.
Not everyone has this kind of a written record that, in this case, has been kept since (wow!) 2012 so I can understand the value in filling the questionnaire out.
I am not sure if I will do the questionnaire again but, out of respect for the elders, I have obeyed.
It has triggered a bunch of unpleasant emotions although I have no idea why.
So, Lord, I ask You to reveal why doing this sort of thing is so difficult for me.
I will leave off here, trusting God for the answer. AMEN!
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