Alright, so I've really been making an effort lately to seek God more passionately and really just deepen my relationship with Him and truly be open for Him to work through me to accomplish His purposes. He has been revealing so many things to me, and well, I've never been terribly good at recording things or communicating anything in any sort of comprehensible manner, but I would like to have some sort of reminder of the things I am learning, and well, I figured why not attempt to compile some of these thoughts, feelings, revelations, and whatever else into a blog entry every once in a while. I mean I guess that's kinda the purpose of a blog anyways, and you really never know who else might benefit from hearing something that God has been speaking to you, so I'll give it a try.
So, I've recently started attending a new Sunday School class at church entitled “Experiencing God” and God has really been revealing a great deal to me through this. It is basically about making yourself available for God to work through you. The first week has been over understanding God's will for your life, which is definitely a very applicable lesson to me. So many people want to know what God's will is for their life, and I admit that I have been one of those people, but really the question should be just what is God's will...period. Then once we have an understanding of what God's will is, we can begin adjusting our lives so that we can live a God-centered rather than self-centered life, allowing Him to work through us to accomplish His designs. We cannot accomplish anything for God on our own or by following our own desires, but rather we must sacrifice them to Him and allow Him to mold us into something He can use to accomplish His work. And the truth is that when we allow this to happen and we are obedient to His call, everything works out far better than we ever could have orchestrated on our own. Of course the challenges and obstacles will be many and the sacrifices are great, but it is worth it.
This brings me to another point, one that is often very difficult for me...that God rarely gives you a detailed road map of where He is headed with something, but rather He wants you to trust Him completely to be the guide. I mean look at the way God called most of the people He sent to accomplish His amazing plans. Abram, Moses, the disciples...I mean there are examples scattered all over throughout His Word of God basically saying “Go” without filling them in on any details, and they trusted Him to do it. Of course they had their doubts and excuses just like everyone else at first, but eventually they came to a place where they trusted God totally and completely with their lives.
This brings me to my last point for the moment, probably the one that has impacted me the most, and one that I have known for a long time, but never ceases to amaze me...the fact that God chooses to use us to accomplish His works despite our endless faults and disbelief. I have been reading Genesis lately, and I've read it several times, but I've never noticed just how wretched and unqualified the majority of the people that God uses here, and throughout history really are. I mean just read about Abraham and His repeated distrust in God. He lies several times about his wife saying that she is his sister to escape what he deems to be certain death, and he doesn't believe that God can provide him with a son through his wife, and so on...yet God still uses him to become the father of His people, Israel. And Jacob, he was a con-artist, a huge liar, deceiving nearly everyone around him for his own personal gain, yet God uses Him. Then moving into the new testament, there are the disciples, the most unlikely group of ridiculous and uneducated hooligans that anyone would ever expect to be trusted with anything of importance, especially spreading the Word of God throughout the world. And then there's Saul who would have thought nothing of killing any Christian he met before his experience with Christ, becoming Paul and carrying the message of Christ to the Gentiles. And these are but a few of the instances where God uses people that no one would ever expect to carry out His goals. The truth is that not a one of us is “qualified” for the tasks that God has called us to, but if we trust Him, He will always be successful in His endeavors. Anyways, the fact that God chooses to use us despite our very obvious inadequacies is utterly amazing.
Well, I guess that's all I have for the moment. Like I said, I'm not very good at explaining things in any sort of intelligible format, but hopefully you have gotten some sort of something out of my rambling. Have a blessed and wonderful week!
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Wonderfully put Weston!!
Actually strangely i was thinking about your last point (God using us even though we're full of faults) last night, its kinda like when you have a best friend that you think is way too good for you, theyre really intelligent, funny, kind, popular, good looking (the person everyone loves) and they are best friends with you and everytime you hang out with them you think "why me?? seriously ... im rubbish ... you could do so much better" but they see something that you cant see, promise. Thats how i feel with God, 'are you sure you have the right person?' im not worthy of your love, but God thinks we are, awesome huh.
*grins* I love you too Weston.
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