Intentions

Hi there,

How are you doing? It’s been quite awhile since I saw you. I heard you have a boyfriend now? Are you still in colleg? How’s your family doing? Anyways, I just wanted to know if your doing good. Let’s keep in touch.
Say Hi to your brother for me.
Love
-Your friend

We were talking at a ‘Homegroup leader’s meeting’ of how we need to be intentional by inviting people to come to our home group. And I find that we need to do that in everything in our lifes.
Evangelism, friendships, family, mariage, work, ect.
If we want to make a difference where we are, it won’t happen by sitting and waiting for the fireworks to begin. We have to stand up and do something. Meet with friends from church during the week for breakfast, invite the neighborhood to a BBQ, volunteer at the youth center, buy flowers for your wife on a random day,  send a post-card to your gran’ma, write an e-mail to an old friend.

It is so easy for me to lay back and wait for someone to call. And nothing happened for a time. But then I started to ask about available ministries , look for friends from highschool on facebook, go to volleyball on my own, walk in church and shake hands with people I don’t know, give a subway coupon to the lady behing me, buy Dustin’s favourite candies once in a while, ect.

Who knows what God can do with small deliberate acts of love and kindness. And I’m not just talking about evangelism, but in our own church, in our own family and circle of friends.

God wants us to be more like Him.
And if you look at Jesus life you can see that everything he did was purposeful. Ok, he is God and knew why he was here for, but still he always set an exemple of an intentional life.
And I think that as christians we can and are asked to wait on God to move, to reveal himself while we consciously do acts of love and kindness.
In our workplace, our home, at church, at the grocery store, in daylight or in secret.
How can I be intentional today?