Compel-to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
Everyday each of us has things, people, influences that compel us to say, do, and act. Maybe it is our friends that compel us to portray a certain image to the rest of our school, Maybe it is our coaches that compel us to play at a level we thought was unreachable, maybe it is our teachers that compel us to retain more and more information, maybe it is our parents that compel us to represent them well in class, on the field, on a stage. There are voices in our lives that compel us into who we become. I look back at my life and in my mind I see faces, hear voices, of dozens of people who helped shape me by compelling me to be excellent, to try my hardest, people who demanded all I had. But in all the voices there is one that stands alone as the one who has compelled me and continues to compel me to this day. The Holy Spirit of God... Whether He has spoken to me through written Word, through other beleivers, or through speaking into my inmost being, I can honestly say that I would not be anywhere in life if it were not for His Spirit that has compelled me to do things I am not "qualified" to do, to go places I never thought I would go, to reach and change people I never thought possible. Everyday in my life there are people who try to drive me to say or do things. There are commercials that compel me to desire certain things, there are influences that try to persuade me to be or act a certain way.....Today my prayer is that though His voice is contradictary to many of the other things in life that attempt to compel me.......I would have faith today to be compelled by one voice, by one influence. That it would be the Spirit of God that drives me, beyond even my own resistance to live the life, to make the decisions, to act in the faith, to be the man He desires me to be...
Lord, may all the other voices fade into backround noise today.....
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