Making a Choice
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My family and I have been in Austin for about 6 weeks now and everyone ask "How do we like it?" WE LOVE IT! Austin is an incredible town and the church is real. It is a great fit for us and a great fit for me in ministry. Too many details to go into at this point but there are a lot of God-size things happening in my life and my family's life right now.
So, how did we know this is where we were suppose to be? It would be easy to answer if this were the only church that offered me a "job" and we took it to pay bills OR if this was the first church that came along OR all the other churches that I talked with were loser churches that I wanted nothing to do with BUT that was not the case. I was contacted by or I contacted close to 70 churches, many of which were great, healthy churches. There were several churches that we talked with that I thought had great possibilities only to receive the "you suck" letter or email from them a couple of weeks letter. When we visited Southwest Hills, we knew this why we left Mt.Vernon and we knew this is why we had waited 9 months. We knew God's plan for us to come to Austin.
Was is a GREAT VOICE speaking to us? Writing on the wall? A peaceful, easy feeling? What was "IT" that let us know that we were headed to the great state of Texas? Even after we interviewed with SHCC, they still had two more candidates to bring in and we had to wait six more weeks - but Cassie and I knew. How? How do you explain "knowing God's specific plan" for our lives?
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Cassie and I lived this verse faithfully for 9 months. Please understand this not a boastful statement. This is a testimony to say God is who He is! Cassie and I, before leaving Mt.Vernon, committed to each other and to God to delight ourselves in Him and allow Him to create our desires. What an incredible 9 months!!! In a time that should have been chaotic with having no job, living with my parents, and unsure where we would land, in the middle of what can be defined as chaos - there was peace. In circumstances that could create division between me and Cassie and division between us and God, we grew closer and stronger. Why? Because God is who He says He is. Because God initiated this trust thing by letting us know what He would do if we would delight ourselves in Him, we trusted Him to create those delights in us. Because we trusted Him and delighted ourselves in Him, we could trust our feelings and dreams because He was the one placing the dreams and feelings and thoughts in our hearts and heads.
My prayer is that we continue to live our lives today as we have lived the past 9 months - in faith. It seems so simplistic. God is God! Now live a life that shows you believe it.
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