Goals

Word of the month = goals.

Work goals, physical goals, spiritual goals, financial goals. Everyone is talking about goals this year.

As I was asking God what goals He would have me to accomplish (or more realistically at least attempt) this year, I was actually quite surprised to see the list fill up so quickly. There are the standard goals: lose weight, gain more in the bank account, meet my metrics at work and so on but then the Lord began to dig a little deeper. He brought up some ideas from the past that have gone...unaccomplished.

One of these past ideas was to write my own devotional. Now, I don't know how everyone else does their daily devotions but I have 2 daily devotionals I read along with my daily Bible reading, My Utmost for His Highest and Our Daily Bread. These are two very good devotionals. My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers is a convicting and deep devotional, while Our Daily Bread is more everyday life and practical thoughts to ponder and put to practice. These 2 together are a good balance for me. But God was still pressing upon me to work on my own. He gave me a capability to write and enjoy it and I haven't really been utilizing that capability since high school. Besides, who knows, someone who reads this blog may get an encouragement here or there so if there is a chance that God could get glory through it, I'm in.

So there it is. My main purpose of this blog is to share my attempt to create a devotional. That's part of the reason why I titled this blog "Carpe diem Domino" which is Latin for "Seize the day for the Lord". I don't want to waste 2011 and not have anything to show as an accomplishment for God. He has given me the opportunity to live in 2011 and I want to seize that opportunity, seize the day and seize it for Him.

So save this page to your favorites if you want to stop by again sometime. My "goal" with this blog is to glorify the Lord and to maybe be an encouragement to anyone who might stop by and take the time to give it a read.

Step one of completing my devotional goal is complete. All I have to do now is click the "Publish Post" button. And away we go!