~A Thought On My Heart

 Today I want to share a thought that has been on my mind for a long while.  When I was younger, I used to think it was selfish to pray for myself.  I now know that it is very important to pray for ourselves in addition to others.  One of my main prayers for myself is, Lord please let my heart's meditations to be pleasing to you.  Help me to love others as you love them, and guard my lips.  What good are we if we try to be good for the Lord with our actions, but on the inside we are wretched.  I believe most people struggle with this, but with God's help we can change our hearts and Jesus can help us to love others as He loves them.  (Also to love our self as He loves us.)  We can be harder on our self than anyone at times.  

Another thing I pray for is that my words may be pleasing to God.  Words can hurt and cut like a knife and as God's children we should be so very careful to guard our lips.  Careless talk can do much damage.  

So don't be afraid to pray for yourself as you would another person, because  there is much in our current world that will take us far away from the Lord.  I believe our first  priority is to strive to live a life pleasing to the Lord.  It should be our first desire to live our lives for Jesus.  He gave us everything, so our life is bought at a very precious price, we should give to Him all that we can.  Remember we are not just here for ourselves.  We need to be right side up in an upside down world and point people to Jesus so that He can save them and their souls will not perish.  Remember what good is it to gain the world, but loose your soul.  This world is not all their is, and success in this world is far less important than being the hands and feet of Jesus in a world that is so very lost.

This is what has been on my heart for a while now, and I thought I would share my own personal journeys and struggles in the hopes it may be of help to someone who reads my blog.  God bless you and keep you in His loving care.  Hugs to you.  ~Juli