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I've been reading 'Live, Love, Lead' by Brian Houston (2015), founder and global senior pastor of Hillsong Church. He talks about the secret to living a full and abundant life coming back to what is going on in our hearts. I was captured by the image of God planting unique things or 'secrets' in our heart.
"God plants such beautiful things in our hearts. We often think of secrets in a negative way...But what about those "secrets" that God has pioneered in your heart, something that's just between the two of you- a desire, a yearning, a longing, something that brings tears to your eyes and stirs something deep down inside you." (Houston, 2015, p137)
I feel like I'm at a place where I need to rediscover those secrets in my heart. In my twenties these secrets seemed obvious, I felt the yearning. Then life happened and I've taken on other roles as spouse, parent, partner in ministry. I've tried to be faithful in pursuing God's call on my life and know that as a family we are where we are supposed to be. Yet sometimes following this path has felt like it is leading me in a totally different direction to the things that would fulfill the desires of my heart as I would have described them not so long ago. But more than that, I am not sure if I'm still able to recognise the secrets in my heart. Are my long held desires are still relevant? What are the things that stir me? What has God planted in my heart?
And so my friend, I think that one of the things that I need to do is to rediscover the secrets in my heart.
Em
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