So I am trying to growing in to discipline of doing these blogs more regularly. It’s really been a challenge. I keep on telling my teammates that although we have more down time than I ever did back home I have so much more that I am processing through day to day then I do back home.
Each month has a different look. Last month I was writing in my journal like mad I probably wrote on average two pages a day. This month I’ve been reading like a crazy man, I’ve read over 700 pages and there is still a few days left. I’ll probably be close to 1,000 by the end of the month.
As I learn in the midst of all of that reading you can understand how I am thinking through a lot of things. One of the many things has been about the will of G-d. I’ve been reading a book called ‘Decision Making and the Will of G-d’ by Gary Friesen. It’s a great read and pretty easy to understand so I highly suggest it. The one thing that the Lord has really been assuring me of in the midst of it is that so long as I make decisions in wisdom and follow His Word I don’t have to worry.
I realize I have often been so worried when I am making a decision that it won’t be exactly what G-d wants. Gary says it very well in his book when he says he worried that he would marry the wrong girl, and if he married the wrong girl his right girl would marry the wrong guy… eventually the world would spiral out of control! Haha! It’s funny to think about but we do that to ourselves so often!
Being only four months away from going home it’s easy to start worrying about what is going to happen when we go home. But the truth is as long as I am obeying G-ds word, His commands and staying moral I have freedom to chose.
Think of it this way. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden G-d didn’t tell them what they should eat at what time. He just limited them in saying ““You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat…”
Don’t fret about your decisions in life… your free to chose.
