My last blog (Thy Will Be Done) was a thought I had yesterday, and a bit of an added thought I had this morning. Yesterday, God was prompting me to speak at a young adult meeting Full Throttle is in charge of for the month. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was supposed to say, because I usually only like to share thoughts and questions for which I have answers and significant subject matter. However, God kept letting me know that he wanted me to share honestly where I was on submitting to his will, and give a prompting question to those listening. I was kind of apprehensive about the situation, but I went ahead and prepared a short message anyway.
Upon finishing the gathering, our host mom (she is truly our mom by the way, taking care of us all as her children and as young adults) came up to me and said something along the lines of “Thank you for being honest with where you are at. I think our young people needed to hear that. With all the challenging words and messages lately, I think God is trying to tell our church something.” That encouraged me a little bit, but I still wasn’t sure why God asked me to share those questions.
The next morning I was looking through some notes for things I wanted to get done and found “Matthew 10:27-28” written kind of on an angle in the middle of a checklist. This usually means I had ran across those verses somewhere and I wrote the reference down to go back and look at later. I realized I had found those verses while preparing the message for the previous night, so I looked them up.
“What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
I realized that I might never know why God tells me to share things, but he has told me to share them. My job is not to know the reasons, simply to put the words out in the open. Then God can use the words as he needs them to be used.
…yeah… God’s ability to weave everything together in my life, logically (or not), still amazes me. Trust him. The life he has given to me is worth it.
If you don’t think he is worth it, email me! I’ll be happy to listen to your reasons! I also promise to not argue with you, but simply listen, although I will probably pray for you also!
#GodIsInControl #redefiningdisciple
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