In enough of our lives, we have bound up resources that You have provided and thereby miss out on blessings and gifts You intended for us to enjoy. Don’t let your desire to please yourself overrule your desire to please our mighty Lord. Pleasing Him will, without a doubt, add more joy to your life than you can imagine. It centers you on the path He intended and provides the most benefits to your life and to those in your life in more ways than you can comprehend.
I am not the kind of person He wants me to be, but within me that person exists. The only way to find that person is to follow Him, as only He knows the correct path for me. This is true each of us. I do not think about when I will become that person, I do not think about what it will take to become that person, I simply need to follow Him, focus on Him and I will become that person in the right way, at the right time. Knowing that everything that crosses my path, good or bad, is there for a reason, is there to make me enjoy, or suffer, for specific reasons. His reasons, which are ultimately, always based on love and are the best for me to experience in order to become what He planned.
I will not behave the way He intended all the time, but He already knows that and has put appropriate obstacles in my path that are meant to tweak me and mold me and shape me into who I should become for Him.