Sunday, March 10, 2013

Custom Called

Hallelujah for the sun and no wind today! This makes me a very happy camper, really though..it improves my mood leaps and bounds. It has been a beautiful weekend in general which is great considering all my griping about the nasty weather this past week. Anywho....

The season is coming that is filled with romping and playing. I am one to romp and play with the best of them. I am so very glad I get to spend the majority of the spring season with my family before I shove off to Europe. It's just a pleasant time where not only flowers and trees blossom but also ideas, schemes, and plans all of the fun sort I might add. I am glad I get to make ideas, schemes, and plans with them, and make a few memories that later in life a sentence will start off with "Hey remember spring of 2013 when..." and hopefully that sentence will end hilariously.

I am so very excited about going and ministering in Europe, I am excited to work with missionaries there, and make friends with locals that will hopefully and literally last forever. I am so glad that God has laid this in my lap, I am so grateful that he entrusts me to use the Spirit wisely among these people. More and more as I find out more about myself, as life tends to be the teacher, I am glad that he is always there guiding and leading.

Every single day I think about how blessed I am that I have a family who supports me so fully even through their fears and worries. Because love casts out fear, and for the sake of my passion and the sake of the Christ-less people they cast out their fear out of love for me, and the Lord's people who he is preparing for himself. I don't care what you say, my family is the most courageous people I know. They allow and encourage their only single daughter and sister to follow God wherever he takes her, even if it is out of their midst. Not to mention all the worried cousins, aunts, and uncles, they also encourage with a heart of love which is bigger than their fears.

Beautiful days like today just put my mind in a state of thanks and gratefulness to God for giving me such wonderful people to tread this path of life with. My heart is many ties overwhelmed by my position in life, how God has used it and will use it, molding me in a way that I will be most useful. Because that's just how God is, he is personal, relate-able, and he listens. He understands the desires of our hearts and many times if we are just looking to serve him with our lives he will put us in these positions and we will find fulfillment there because it is suited for us and for his purposes. Call it custom-called.

Today I praise him for using me for his purpose in a way I grasp and embrace, though does not come without difficulty. Difficulty comes with the territory, we are not promised ease or comfort, but we are blessed through the difficulties and for that reason we must bless. I have a stellar family, and I am so ready to give those who do not yet know Jesus the biggest and best family there has ever lived; the family of God.

I'm jazzed up, and that's alright, have a beautiful day!

All to God

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