The Good Life?

Dealing with alot this week. The hurt goes too deep even for me to write about. So I distract myself with books and the following comes from a paragraph in the book Crazy Love and quoted by David Goetz:

Too much of the good life ends up being toxic, deforming us spiritually. A lot of things are good by themselves, but all of it together keeps us from living healthy, fruitful lives for God.

This just stuck in my head this morning. I think that I was raised in the good life, grew up expecting the good life, and left my marriage expecting the good life to be even better. It has become toxic to me. And whether anyone agrees with me or my decision is really not my concern. My concern should be with what God thinks of me. God knows my heart. God knows my intent. And though I'm very much still distracted by the world, He knows I am still making effort to get the good life out of my system and get the GOD life back in.

I am also studying the life of David. God called him a man after his own heart. I relate SO well to David. He was such a screw up - as am I - but look how God used him! God knew his heart and I believe my heart is very similar even if marred and torn. God will take my heart, heal it and use me like He used David if only I will shift my focus away from that habitual good life I so love.

1 Samuel 16:7
God does not see people the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.

I plan on holding firm to the verse above.