Get Your Minds Ready for Action

^{I Peter 1:13} So prepare your minds for service and have self-control. All your hope should be for the gift of grace that will be yours when Jesus Christ is shown to you.¹⁴ Now that you are obedient children of God do not live as you did in the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted.¹⁵ But be holy in all you do, just as God, the One who called you, is holy.¹⁶ It is written in the Scriptures: "You must be holy, because I am holy."^[a]
17 You pray to God and call him Father, and he judges each person's work equally. So while you are here on earth, you should live with respect for God.¹⁸ You know that in the past you were living in a worthless way, a way passed down from the people who lived before you. But you were saved from that useless life. You were bought, not with something that ruins like gold or silver,¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, who was like a pure and perfect lamb.²⁰ Christ was chosen before the world was made, but he was shown to the world in these last times for your sake.²¹ Through Christ you believe in God, who raised Christ from the dead and gave him glory. So your faith and your hope are in God.

I woke up this morning not discouraged but weak and tired already of the constant pursuit that I find myself in.  I know that I am to hold true to what God has laid on my heart.  I know that Bruce and Wesley and mom and dad are obstacles that I will be faced with and I know the desire of my heart.  My obstacle only lies within me... the willingness to be persistent in Gods pathway and the drive to accomplish what He has set forth.  I am the problem.  I am physically tired, mentally tired. 

Lord hear my cry today and honor my faithfulness in this pursuit.  Help me to stand firm in this path Lord and not fall astray.  Help me to find the strength to continue to walk, to seek you, to obey you, and put into practice the 7 habits.  Help me to meet the needs of my parents and family.  Only this strength can come from you Lord Father.