Do you know a person that if it is on their mind, it comes out of their mouth. I do, IT'S ME!!! So many times I have said things that probably no one needed to know. My last Sunday in Eutawville I told the church that I had been wearing the same underwear for three days because I packed them in a box and could not find them (see there I go again saying things hopefully you do not want to know about). Anyway, too many times I follow the same pattern with my actions. I act on things when I should be patient and wait on things to develop.
In Oswald Chamber's devotional book My Utmost For His Highest, Chambers said this about patience:
There are times when you can’t understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don’t fill it with busyness, just wait. The time of waiting may come to teach you the meaning of sanctification— to be set apart from sin and made holy— or it may come after the process of sanctification has begun to teach you what service means. Never run before God gives you His direction
Wow!! Instead of pushing through with my mental movie of how things should go, maybe I should wait. Too many times I don't think I have time to be patient, but I must make time. I wonder how many times have I overlooked God as a result of my inability to wait.
On a personal note - we have unpacked almost every box and our apartment is looking like a home. I am now working on developing the core group for the Journey (name of the church plant) and watching God work. I also am a resident assistant at our apartments and so I am planning how to build community within the complex. It is a change from what I have been doing, but it is so exciting.
By the way, how do you like the logo for The Journey? It is based on the Liberty Bridge in Greenville.
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