To Live or Die

So a friend of mine posted a comment on his facebook about changing the question from "If you died would you go to heaven?" to "If you knew you would live forever what kind of person would you like to become?"  this got me thinking about me and my sphere of influence and how some of the conversations I have had with good christian people the comment has been made I would die for Christ or the gospel.  That is great and if it ever came to that and my death would glorify Christ then so be it, however I think too many times we get caught up in the dying for Christ and not so much on the living for Christ.  It is true we are to die to ourselves that means living sacrificially.  The real challenge I feel is actually living for Christ wherever you are.  It is no secret that I struggle in my job and the hours I put inand some of the situations I am placed in by my employer, but this past week as I am wrestling with this whole thing I was sitting sround co-miserating with a friend and he made a comment that I haven't heard since my grandmother passed away years ago.  The comment "Well it is up to me to bloom where I am planted"  wow God you sure know how to meet us where we are at!  Thatis it in a nutshell to live for Christ is to bloom where I am planted be a willing participant in what God is doing around me.  Whatever  God has called me to be doing when He comes back I had better be doing.  I would be devistated if I was doing my own thing and I get a tap on the shoulder and there is Christ asking me what I was doing when He asked me to be doing something different.  There are many times I am so frustrated I can't see straight but the one thing that keeps me is the fact that knowing somehow God will use me where I am if I let Him.  My prayer for all of us is that we learn to see God working around where we are and take part in it!  Again it leads me back to living intentionally for Him.  It is becoming clearer why He wanted me to name this blog Intentional Life.  He keeps bringing me back to that truth.  Please know that I am not preaching cause as stated in my first entry this blog is a window to anyone who wants to see what God is doing in and with me, with the hope that He will use it to minister somehow to someone else out there that needs to see what He can and is willing to do if we let Him.  Thank you for reading and I hope you will continue to follow and walk with me.  Let's all get out there and live for Him and His glory!!!