Tag: wanted

Being and Doing

Jennifred Jones

Is what I am doing what I am being or becoming?

We humans are pretty easy to train. We get an idea in our mind and then think about it and eventually we’ll act about it if we think it long enough.

The ‘be’ generally comes before the ‘do’. When we want to change something in our life, we think how/who we want to be and then begin to do who we want to be. It can take a lot of thinking and pondering to get it into our head that we can become what we want to become, but we are trainable. We think the thought – make the plan – get a vision. Then begin to act on the thought.

It’s like learning to read. We see the letter, hear how it’s pronounced, then we practice pronouncing. In time and after practice, we become a reader, and the more we practice and read the stronger we become in learning new words and reading.

As we ‘be’ in our minds and hearts what we want to ‘do’ in our lives, then before long we’ll be doing what we want to be, and we’ll become what we wanted to do.

The Need to Be Needed!

Jennifred Jones

Some may think it’s selfish to feel needed.

I believe it’s part of our drive for purpose. We want to know something we did mattered in someone else’s life…that we were noticed. (I also realize it can become backwards and cause people problems, dependencies etc. etc. etc.)

But! What I’m getting at is this need to make something of value to someone else. It’s like a gift that no one else could or did make and they are happy to receive it. They like it and they like you for giving it to them. That makes us happy. That’s how it’s supposed to be.

People need what we can provide for them in a good honest way!

I want to raise this idea up a notch. In our relation to God, it’s different. He made us, but he doesn’t need us. He wants us. He doesn’t need anything of ours. It’s all his anyway. But we’re his kids and like any earthly father, he wants us. That’s a big difference between the need and the want. The want comes from choice. The need comes from a necessity.

We not only need to be needed, but we want to be wanted.

God wants us. Let’s want him back.