Free to be ME.
Guest blog by James Schleusener
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Guest blog by James Schleusener.
Youth Pastor at Harvest Church on the Sunshine Coast
http://facebook.com/jamesschleusener
11 For I know the plans I have for YOU,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper YOU and not to harm YOU, plans to give YOU hope and a future.
In the search for who we are and what were supposed to do
We can find ourselves lost.
We can so easily just be a concoction of who we look up to
and what we think is cool, we just end up becoming the sum total of
nothing that looks like something.
We search to “find and fulfill” the void inside, but instead of
Filling the void we create a deeper wound of confusion and emptiness
By slapping on the bandaid of alcohol, sex, drugs, parties, travel, career, family, relationships etc etc…
These things in themselves momentarily satisfy, but still
leave us void of fulfillment.
So we continue to “search for ourselves”.
I’m not sure what life has thrown your way but I reckon if we
Stop searching for ourselves and start being ourselves we will
Find ourselves.
You are sitting in your chair, lying in your bed
or drinking your coffee,
you are alive
You are here and you are now.
Be true to who YOU are, who you have
always been and who you will always be.
Don’t allow the ways of this world
To steal YOU.
Stop looking for YOU and start being YOU.
Much love
Ps: you were created with a plan and purpose designed just for YOU.


