Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What is God up to now?

We are in Christchurch working with habitat humanity to help serve the people who have been effected by the earth quakes. I'm staying with an amazing family who treat me like one of their own.Paul, the director of it all actually reminds me a little of my dad. We now have our own beds with running water and sinks with hand soap along with toilets that are inside our house. Helen, Paul's wife is an amazing cook and continues to knock our socks off with her dinners and deserts.Unfortunately I'm not feeling very good today and have stayed back with Helen who has agreed that this is the best thing I could do. However I think my team is a little frustrated with me because I have been sick so much and they don't understand that I am trying my hardest without destroying myself. Although I want them to all be my best friends, God is telling me to rest and He comes before man. It kinda sucks because I have been becoming closer to the people we stay with rather then my team. I know God is teaching me that not everyone can be best friends but all I can do is love and that's what I'm trying to do more of. It isn't like we don't get along I just feel like I'm able to be a good room mate and that's it. If you know me I'm the type that has at least one really close friend if not more and I wasn't able to find that in my team, however God truly became that person for me. Instead of turning to my team for help I turned to God and he never left my side. 


I'm not really sure what God has planned next but I decided that it would be best for me to come home sooner rather then later. I want to make sure that my health is ok by doctors I trust. I need to prepare myself for Australia and not burn my self out before I go there. Plus God has given me some projects to complete before I head off on my next adventure that will hopefully leave an impact on my community. I know God has changed a lot of things and has given my a broader perspective on life just like he always does when I complete a stepping stone with him. All I really know is that I want to live for him and everything I touch will fade unless God is the one guiding my hand. 


I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 
                                                                                              -Galatians 2:20










If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. - James 1:5


God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. - 1 John 16-18


“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.  From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.  God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.  ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring. -Acts 24-28


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