A friend gave me a mug for graduation 2 years ago, and the mug reads, "Wherever you go, go with all your heart," and honestly I never really thought deeply enough about that until right now. I of course thought it was awesome when she gave it to me back then, but I'm not sure I really thought about that saying in a very deep context, more so of just a "give it all you've got" kinda deal...but as I'm reading it now...it seems like much more.    

  

   Our heart& soul are God's way of guiding us through life...when we become filled with His Holy Spirit, his love and joy and direction fill our hearts like never before, and from then on we rely not on our own wants and desires, but God's. The way I see it...our hearts or souls are God's gateway into our lives...and when God fills your heart, you better believe He's going to want to fill it fully! If you are listening to what God is telling you, and yet still clinging on to your own desires at many times...you aren't allowing Him to fill your heart COMPLETELY and FULLY...you aren't going at Him "with all your heart." 

   The thing is once we DO learn to go at God with all our hearts, we soon learn that going at everything else with all our hearts becomes a lot easier because like I said God isn't a halfway kinda guy...He's the whoooole enchilada kinda guy! 

   "Wherever you go, go with all your heart..." I don't think we realize how important it truly is to do this...to actually act this out. We are human, which means unless it's something we are totally all for, more than likely we will only do it halfway...do enough to get it done and be done, so usually going at something will all our heart is hard for us, or maybe it's just that we are so used to going at things halfway that we do it sub-consciously, but either way we don't do it. And honestly, what does life amount to if we go through it only  doing what we want to do all the time, and not giving it all we've got when we aren't doing exactly what we want? I want my life to amount to more than that! I want to go all in all the time living constantly according to God's will for my life! Because now I can see that not going with all my heart wherever I go...is only going halfway...and God is not a halfway kinda God...

   There are always going to be times in our lives where we don't want to do what we know God is calling us to do, or we don't want to go where He is calling us to go...but what if instead of disobeying or simply being obedient, we went where God wanted us to with all our hearts?...EXCITED, DETERMINED, STRONG-WILLED, and READY to pursue the life God has planned out for us? What kind of difference might we make then?

   Needless to say...that mug means a lot more to me now.