So I wasn’t going to start this whole blogging thing until I started on my BigStuf journey this summer, but God’s working now, so I guess I’ll try to keep up with this thing till May 13th…we’ll see how this goes.So this post is going to be about walking in God’s will for several different reasons: 1. It’s something I am so passionate about because it hit me so hard earlier this year. 2. so many sermons/messages have been about that lately between church, FUSE, FCA 3. I feel like so many people around me are falling more and more in love with Jesus because they are being hit with the Truth and the freedom of walking in His will for our lives.
Walking in God’s will is the most satisfying, joy-filled, lovely, fun, crazy, unpredictable path I have ever taken, and I ask myself everyday..”Why did it take 18 years for me to figure out that this was my purpose in life!?” I trust in the Sovereignty of God (that is, that He is in control 100% of every aspect of my life..His timing is perfect, and there is nothing that happens that He did not plan or allow) and so I thank Him that He didn’t give up on me. So many times I was unfaithful, unloving, turning my back on Him in certain areas of my life. But He has captured my heart, and as Philippians 3:14 says, “…But I have my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward–to JESUS. I’m off and running, and I am NOT turning back!”
Back in early October, I figured it out…finally. It’s so hard to explain with words, because after all, it is a supernatural thing when you realize what the Creator of the world did for you, and how badly He wants a relationship with you. So I walked, blinded to what He wanted for me and what He wanted to do for me; I had to trust Him, and He was not going to let me get away- I am His daughter, and He promises that he does not allow His children that He loves to wander from Him for too long before He takes everything out from under them so they have to to lean and trust in Him completely. He does whatever He has to to get our attention..because He LOVES us. Needless to say, I have been beyond blessed since I finally took time to respond to God telling me that He was ALL I needed in this world, and to be completely satisfied in Him.
I am one of sixteen interns at an amazing youth camp this summer called BigStuf in Panama City Beach; through this camp I will get to return to Africa for a short term mission trip, which is my favorite place in this world. If it weren’t for God blessing me with the internship, I would not be able to go back this summer..funny how God knows our hearts. He has blessed me with amazing, loving, fun sisters and brothers in Christ here at Clemson–best friends really. Friendships that are eternal, because they are rooted in Him. I just joined NewSpring Church, and last night I went to FUSE, the youth group at NewSpring, and I fell in love with that place!! God is tugging on my heart to really plug-in there and invest in youth (6-12th graders). Not to mention the little things that happen daily that remind me that He is completely in control! I could go on and on with everything that He has done for me, but then this blog would just get long and boring for some readers.
In no way am I trying to say I am perfect or that I have this all figured out..I definitely do not know what I am doing sometimes, and most of the time I mess up a good many times before I get it right. And that’s where His never-ending grace comes in..He never stops loving me. There is nothing I could do to separate me from the love of my Father!
“None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us!” -Romans 8:37-39 (The Message)
So I just want to encourage you to ask yourself…How well do I know my loving, faithful Savior? Does He own your heart completely? Do you give EVERY area of your life to Him daily, before your feet hit the floor? Do you trust Him to take Your life and do with it whatever He wants, even if it’s not really what you want? Do you want to live a boring, predictable life…or do you want a crazy, adventurous life where YOU don’t even know what you are doing sometimes but just following your Jesus and what He has called you to do??
