Setting goals and achieving them definitely build confidence and self-esteem. I have a long list of achievements from learning to ride a back, writing, educational goals to making lifelong friends and instilling a love for God in my family.
But when your heart-felt attempts are rejected and your achievements scorned that’s when you plant your feet on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. The actions I take for the kingdom of God have eternal value, which is a life-long lesson.
I have set my own goals at times above God’s purposes. Of course, I didn’t always see the truth in the moment, just plowed ahead. Yet, God made me the way I am and knew I would need to plow.
God blesses our achievements to show us that we are wonderfully made. Therefore, the glory is His.
I had nothing to write about this morning, feeling down–amazing how God can comfort your heart with a simple thought once you meditate on it.

“the actions I take for the kingdom of God have eternal value” – this is so true, and I need to be reminded of it. These are achievements that we sometimes don’t see at the time.
Your neighbor at FMF#12
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amazing how God can comfort your heart with a simple thought
Just popped by from FMF #14
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So little now that I can do,
a rifle stock, a custom knife,
so little that might tell me true
that there was worth within my life.
The words I felt that I called to write
have faded into Amazon,
and in the falling of the night,
I wonder if, yes, I was wrong
to presume a higher gift
of a rhyme that could be song
that might give the world a lift…
but this just might have been effusion
of a well-meant grand illusion.
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In truth and wisdom apply your rhyme, God knows your heart. He has designed you very well.
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Knowing that our achievements for HIM matter most we can do today in a different light. Thank you for that peaceful thought. Jennifer FMF
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