I am in St. Louis this week. Monday-Wed. Meeting with people, sharing the vision, enjoying friends, gaining wisdom, being encouraged and getting discouraged! This is tough stuff. We have jumped in head first without even thinking about if we new how to swim. This is where some might make some "God is your life vest" lame reference, but i wont. i know Jesus has called us to lay ourselves down and pick up HIS CROSS and not our own idols. Its tough. I know God is good. I know that all that he asks of us he provides.
Those are hard thoughts when your car is overheating in the parking lot of Panera 300 miles away from home, you left your laptop charger at the house you are staying at, mac battery is at t-minus...minutes left, you got a speeding ticket cause the lam-o at walmart made you an hour and half late for your trip (not my led foot off course), hard when you are wondering where your paycheck will come from.
Hard to see a silver lining. Its hard to have faith when the enemy is attacking. Hard to live a life in a sinful broken world were everything is falling a part and your own sin is so prevalent. Jesus says in John 10 that he has come to give us life...a full life and its true. As long as we are at work in this fallen world there will be much trouble, but through him we can experience it all with differnt eyes- real life. joy. peace and patience in the midst of the "suffering". We can lean into his divinity and not our weakness. He is good, and this is hard.
Jesus maybe you be glorified and exhauled in all of this and thanks for the new ipod... it helped!
REVEAL • LIVE • ENJOY
Steev
