We are God’s passion and He does not want anything more for us to enjoy our lives. God wants to be with us in good and bad times.
What good is fake love?
Love is so much more amazing when we don’t have to force it upon people and will be much more rewarding. And, it will be a perfect love when it does come and will be blatantly obvious. This perfect love is what God has for all of us.
God is always reaching for us and trying to win our hearts. We are too wicked to even settle for our Savior. Pretty bad huh? We really don’t have to do anything other than just surrendering to God and just saying yes, I will follow. Then we have eternal life. God lays it out so simply for us because of His love for us.
Lying in my bunk trying to figure out what God has for me during this week. Its clear that God has been challenging me to document my experiences and using my gifts He has blessed me with.
So it has been a confusing couple of weeks but also very reassuring about the decision I made to eave town for college and I am extremely excited for the path God has laid ahead of me for the next stage of my life. It is truly amazing how I am going to be given so much room to expand in a place I am completely unfamiliar with. I believe it is he times when we are out of our comfort zone and in unknown situation is when we can grow the most because you are able to 100% put yourself out there and not be held back by decisions you’ve made in the past or the reputation you have built because no one knows who you are and you have the opportunity to truly be yourself and not conform to those around you.
So here I am, Monday morning on my first quiet time sitting next to a busy road watching cars go by in San Ramon. It’s a pretty dreary day but that does not hinder God at all!! Many times it’s on the dreariest days that God can do the most work. This is true for many reasons. It’s amazing that God knew this group of people to do this work for Him, for so long. God must be looking down and saying, “they are finally here having the experience that I have been orchestrating for all of time.”
The ducks are still quacking at Annie! Haha! Now some more birds are starting to communicate with each other. I’m feeling raindrops. It’s crazy that these ducks are obviously trying to say something to Annie, and now Lani that she has walked over there. But when someone is not rightly equipped to hear you, there is absolutely no way we can listen, same with God. If we are not rightly equipped to hear what God is saying there is no way for us to know what he really wants for us to do. For instance, we are in need of a willing heart, a desire to do God’s will, and a mind to follow through with what he is telling us to do. Also, an open mind to do whatever it is no matter what.
There is no perfect way to worship God. It isn’t a formula that we must follow. It is called our relationship with God. Our relationships with our fellow man are different with each person we interact with. In the same way, God has a different relationship with every person; we all have different ways of worshipping God and different ways of giving God all the glory. For instance, I worship God and communicate with him and learn from him by writing out many of my prayers and thoughts, which is what I am doing now.
Why does God choose the unlikely people for his missions and ministry?
- Because God is amazing in himself and He could work through literally anybody; so, why not us?
GOD’S POWER IS UNREAL!
We have got to be different. When you succeed and it’s expected because you are ordinary, it won’t be very noticeable and most likely will blend in with all the other people who succeed. But, when you are out of the ordinary and you succeed, it is much more noticeable.
All it takes is surrender and we are covered and saved. We just have to have the trust in God. Genesis 12: Abraham and Isaac.
GOD IS CALLING US TO BE DIFFERENT.
“Follow where God leads, no matter where it is.” This is the time – moving to a new place, or just another stage in life – when we need to simply have faith and just go where He leads no matter where. Because, it’s going to be very new and uncomfortable being in a brand-new place for the first time ever and to do God’s will. We must do what He says because we won’t even be able to survive on our own because there will be no worldly support which will either be an unbelievable blessing or incredibly terrible. I pray that we will turn and surrender our vulnerable lives to God in our discomfort because through our weaknesses he will be made strong. We just have to reach back and grab hold of His hand; it’s that simple.
Life flows from God for everyone. God plays no favorites: He loves us all as his children with an extreme and unexplainable passion.
The sun has finally come out today after we have experienced a couple days of overcast and some rain. It just goes to show that no matter what the weather is like, God’s light is active in the places we are.
There is a funky smell that keeps popping up as I’ve ben sitting in this spot this morning, but then goes away. It is a very “sewagey” kind of smell. But it definitely reminds me of Costa Rica, so I can’t get enough of it. Its funny because I definitely feel that God is providing this smell for us, not to necessarily enjoy for its fragrance, but to know that He is God and He wants us to be mindful that He is here and working in Costa Rica as well. There He is again, not using the typical and ordinary things to bring Him glory. Because, sure, amazing smells will bring God glory; but, it is the unusual ones that we remember.
Love. Out. Loud. Love. Out. Loud. Every single one of us wants to make an impact in some way during this life; it is human nature. We can do this by loving out loud. There is never a perfect time to do anything that God calls us to do. We are on God’s Time. When we focus on what means most to God, He will fill in the blanks. So have no fear that you won’t do a job perfectly because only God is perfect. Put yourself out there and FAIL. Who cares??? As long as you are doing what God wants you to do, we cannot fail in God’s eyes because he always has our back. We need to start focusing on what means most to God, His people.
“I may be weak, but your spirit is strong in me.” Give me your spirit today God, for I am truly weak and tired. This day will produce no fruit without God with us. We must not reserve the love of God for only those close to us. When God puts us on a mission or has called us to something, it is no longer about us. Once we surrender to God, we finally come to the realization that it has never been about us, but only God. So we have to do what God calls us to do no matter the convenience of what we think matters. “FOLLOW GOD WHEREVER HE LEADS, NO MATTER WHERE.”
It is not about us simply helping Costa Ricans because; we can do that by sending money and not even stepping foot off of a plane. It is about us fulfilling God’s plan and will. He puts us in this discomfort so we will draw closer to Him by completely leaning on Him and taking ourselves completely out of the equation. If you are truly doing God’s will, you should be in situations that you feel discomfort and feel the need to faithfully rely on Him. He wants to use humbled people so He can reign supreme and receive all the glory.
All who worship God will one-day worship him with no language barriers because He is Lord, He is above all things, and He can’t wait for us to be with Him sided by side. Today is God’s day, or El hoy es el día de Dios, for all you Spanish speakers.
This is the last time I will see these kids in a while if not forever, I pray that we can be bold and love them as much as we can to serve them and not leave a single regret at the end of the day. At the end of the day we will be able to say Hice todos lo que podría hacer mi parte en sus vidas. Translated for you Spanish noobs, I did all I could to do my part in their lives.
Expect the unexpected, good and bad, when it comes LOVE. God’s love is also unexpected. We need to expect Him to love us no matter how wicked we are; THAT is unexpected! Do we really realize that God personally loves us? Not just that he loves His people or humanity by dying on the cross. But God had each of us individually in mind as He suffered on that cross and would have just as easily had died for you, I, or any awful person you could think of; even if they were the only person on earth at that time. Because that is how much He loves us individually. True love is God’s love and that is the love we need to show other people in our lives no matter how much they have done or how unfaithful they have been. We must do all we can to get them back by loving them just as God did for us.
God does way too much for us that we couldn’t even begin to try to compare anything he does. God does infinitely more for us in one day than we can ever do in a lifetime. Just look around and try to figure out what God has placed around you and why on earth he would at that instant. If you can do that and realize the enormity of our Lord, think about all the things that he strategically places around us that we miss! That is why He is God and we are not. He is constantly working and we can’t take in everything that the One that loved us first does for us.
God’s works are comparable to books in a library. Each has been created and executed perfectly according to its author. We casually pass through and look past many of them, not investigating them at all, but suddenly we experience one that relates to us. God has you experience this particular one for a reason to teach you and mold you. Just wait, God is working in your life you just have to be searching for His fingerprints on the areas of your life.
When God is present in a place, it is obvious because each person becomes completely different in the way they are seeing things. We all begin to see everything around us as God would see it. That is seeing everything in the way that it brings glory to God.
Many times we hold off on doing some things because we fear we won’t get an immediate response. Let’s take something as simple as a nice wave to someone else. If we don’t think they will wave back or we won’t see them wave back, most times we tend to hold back. How is that a success for the kingdom of God? Who has ever felt joy from not being acknowledged by a friendly wave? Wouldn’t you much rather receive a gesture than not if you are having a bad day? Even when sometimes we don’t see the reaction of another person, we have no idea what God has intended for the act you do, which could be a simple wave. It could be an act that goes extremely far for someone that notices a person who loves God and loves others. When the light of God shines through someone, it doesn’t go unnoticed.
Costa Rica may be in need of many things, but that doesn’t even start to compare to the equal amount of need that every country has for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Walk worthy with the calling with which you were called.” Eph 4:1
It’s time for us to find our calling and not give it up. God knows the plan and we shouldn’t distrust him. He knows what He’s doing. Jesus led our captivity into captivity when He died for our sins. We were bounded by sin and only the love of God will set us free. He has called us all differently, some to higher positions than others. Do not be children that can be deceived by false doctrine and tricks but trust your Father in heaven for once you go from being children to children of God, you will then walk in the light. Our vision and understanding being obstructed and unwillingness to see God for who he truly he is will prevent us from reaching the top because of ignorance and blindness.
