How big is your ripple?

Just a little over a week ago I was talking with a friend on my facebook messenger and she has known me for quite some time and so I feel comfortable asking her some questions that I would with others. But anyway we were talking about all that God is doing in our lives and I came out and asked her... "How has my life and all that I have been through impacted you?" I won't give you the entire answer but I will say it was a positive one.

How amazing is it that me and that particular friend live over 250miles away from one another and yet we still impact each others lives.

Today I was talking with a friend and he gave me an insight that I have never thought of before. "Life is a bunch of small groups" Christian, Budhist, Hindu, American, Chinese. It doesn't matter. You have a small group. And you, like everyone else, have more than one small group. So now my question is this.... "How does my life impact those people in those different small groups?" How do I encourage them? How do I discourage them? Do I put a smile on their face or do I bring anger and discontent to their heart? HOW DO I IMPACT THEM? Do I bring them joy? Do I bring them hope? But them most important question is this...Do I bring them the love and mercy that Jesus has for me? How big and what kind of ripple effect do you have on people.

Downhere sings a song entitled "Here I Am". I have posted some lyrics on my facebook and myspace statuses and the lyric that hit me the hardest is when they sing out "Here I am. Lord send me. I live my life as an offering." How powerful! To live my life as an offering. WOW!!! What a testimony that would be. What a "ripple effect" that would have if all of us "christians" had that kind of heart. I'm not saying that some don't but what about those that seek Christ's face but is that their prayer? Is that my prayer? Am I willing to give up all that I am to TRUELY live my life as an offering? I would like to hope that, that is my heart. And I would like to hope that I would give up all that I have in an instant to praise The God Almighty.

I would just like to challenge myself and if anyone else would like to do the same I encourage it. I want to challenge myself to try to live my life as an offering. Live my life for God and only God. I know that we are all human and we all screw up. I hve screwed up many times in the past and I will surely do so again in the future but I hope and pray that I have people out there that have been impacted by my life or by the life of another christian to pick me back up on my feet so that I may press on toward a life that is an offering.

Philippians 3:12-14
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also lay hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.