Lately I've been trying to look back over the course of my life and where I'm going, not through my own eyes, but through God's eyes. It's almost like looking through the eyes of my Creator I can get a feel for why events and choices in my life worked out the way they did, but at the same time my own human-ness looks back on that life with much regret.
God has blessed me and protected me for my whole life, even when I've made bad choices and squandered so much of the time He has given me, especially in my youth. He has given me the gifts of spiritual insight and of pouring out the contents of my heart and mind into writing, and I believe He has given me these special gifts for His purpose and glory. I've only begun using my gift of discernment in recent years, but I've always loved to write. With that in mind, I can't help wondering what might have been or what I might have been able to do with those gifts had I presented them to God for His use through me. Now, when I'm at the age that I am and feel more of a sense of purpose, I also feel that I don't have nearly as much time as I wish I did to use my gifts for the greatest good. It is unfortunately easy to take for granted the time we're given, and I've been reminded more than once that once that time is gone, there is no getting it back.
However, God can use any experience, whether it is success, failure, or something in between, for His purpose. If nothing else, I hope I can still use my own life experience to present to readers the tools to live a life that can be useful to God and the world at large. These words are for everyone who reads them, though I think they may be most useful to the young. My advice, then, is this: Think about what it is you most like to do, what gives you the greatest feeling of fulfillment. When you have a good idea of what your interests and passions are, then find out what your spiritual gifts are that God has created you with - there are lots of Biblically sound sources for spiritual gifts assessment. Finally, once you know what you love to do and how God has created you to be, there has to be some way that you can use everything that He has given you to serve the Kingdom in some capacity or other. Find out what it is that God wants you to do with your life - some people call it a 'God goal' - and pursue it with everything you have. God will honor that and take care of you along the way. After all, God created us the way we are, to use what we have been given, to glorify Him.
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