Becoming Virtuous

I’m done waiting. This life is too precious to be spent pining for a “someday it could be.” There’s too much at stake for me to stay on the sidelines—hesitating because life looks different than I thought it would, with the weight of my expectations causing me to lag behind reality. I’m done with the bondage of “what if”s.

I want to be free. Free from temporal distraction so I can focus on knowing and serving God, living “Coram Deo.” I want to be free to focus on how I can love and serve others, seeing in them the “Imago Dei.”

I want to start living now, fully alive and sold out for God. I want to follow His leading, be faithful where I am, and join Him in making disciples. I want to hope only in God. I want the only thing on my radar to be asking how God is calling me to be faithful with the task/situation in front of me right now. I want to be fully trusting that God has me where I am for a reason that displays His marvelous glory and goodness, and that means He has given me a mission and purpose, right here right now.

This is my manifesto. And may God in His grace give me the strength, grit, and heart to see it through.

“For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah” ~ Psalm‬ ‭62:5-8‬ ‭ESV