Comments on: changing plans http://www.thrivecommunity.net/2009/02/changing-plans/ becoming fully alive in the movement of Jesus... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ryan http://www.thrivecommunity.net/2009/02/changing-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-5 ryan Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:00:53 +0000 http://www.thrivecommunity.net/?p=461#comment-5 I have also been thinking a lot about this as well recently, and I think God gave us ego with a careful instruction to use in certain places. You wouldn't look at me (I hope) and say that "he has an EGO" which is typically bad, but I do have one, and I think that my slightly outgoing side has a use, as long as I understand what it is for and how I am to use that motivated part of me. It is a tool to be wielded. I think the kind of ego you're talking about is one that can be diminished as you mature in the Lord over time, though it is always there, it can begin to take less of a shadow over our heads, as we learn to let God invade more of us all the time. I guess I think of it more in terms of passion. What I would consider my ego is the burning desire in my heart that moves me to act in a certain way. When I let this be something other than using every waking moment as an opportunity to bring God the pleasure I can, I am in trouble. When I decide to use my passion, the main force in me to be all that I can be in God's army so-to-speak, things begin to happen that I never imagined before, in a good way, and for sure, there is nothing like it. I have a vendetta for certain things that I cannot tolerate in this world, and I am not cocky about it, in fact I have a hard time being confident enough to believe in "my" dream. I think confident dependence and trust feels like simple faith that moves you to act, but that's all there is to it. Once God gets a hold of you, you see what he sees, and you find what it is you would rather do the rest of your life, it is the best place to be. Though I am never too sure that's where I am, I at least feel I am heading in that direction, and I finally feel alive. I have also been thinking a lot about this as well recently, and I think God gave us ego with a careful instruction to use in certain places. You wouldn’t look at me (I hope) and say that “he has an EGO” which is typically bad, but I do have one, and I think that my slightly outgoing side has a use, as long as I understand what it is for and how I am to use that motivated part of me. It is a tool to be wielded. I think the kind of ego you’re talking about is one that can be diminished as you mature in the Lord over time, though it is always there, it can begin to take less of a shadow over our heads, as we learn to let God invade more of us all the time.

I guess I think of it more in terms of passion. What I would consider my ego is the burning desire in my heart that moves me to act in a certain way. When I let this be something other than using every waking moment as an opportunity to bring God the pleasure I can, I am in trouble. When I decide to use my passion, the main force in me to be all that I can be in God’s army so-to-speak, things begin to happen that I never imagined before, in a good way, and for sure, there is nothing like it.

I have a vendetta for certain things that I cannot tolerate in this world, and I am not cocky about it, in fact I have a hard time being confident enough to believe in “my” dream. I think confident dependence and trust feels like simple faith that moves you to act, but that’s all there is to it. Once God gets a hold of you, you see what he sees, and you find what it is you would rather do the rest of your life, it is the best place to be. Though I am never too sure that’s where I am, I at least feel I am heading in that direction, and I finally feel alive.

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