"And then something happened. In one moment everything changed." I realised this week that a lot of big changes in our life happen because of moments. A pause in time where we make a decision,our belief changes or many other different cases arise. But because of that pause, that moment, our life alters it's course. I've recently started staffing a new Discipleship Training School with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Brisbane. We spent the past weekend sharing our stories with one another. In every single story there came a moment in our lives where a choice was needed to be made and we realised that we wanted to live for Jesus. For me that happened when I was 16. I knew God before then but I didn't know how He could change things, how He could make me whole. One day at a youth camp in a single moment I knew that I wanted to make the choice for Jesus no matter the cost. That moment changed things, it altered my course. The same thing happened the day I decided to do missions. I was tired of living a purposeless life where I didn't know what I was doing or where I was headed. I knew God had a purpose in me doing missions so I chose Him in that moment and now I live in Australia. Life altering moment. These moments in our life can be big or they can be small. The best life altering moments you can choose are living for the Lord. My encouragement for you would be to take these moments as they come. Let them change you and alter your course. The choice is yours. Cause what is life without a little adventure and a whole lot of Jesus? photo via: http://whatalovelythought.tumblr.com/post/54047616534
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I love the fact that a relationship with the Lord is not this boring journey of knowing everything about Him to start with and then not learning anything new. The exciting thing about a relationship with God is the discovery of His character. I got a new revelation last week on grace. Growing up in church and now being a missionary for the past few years you hear a lot about grace. I grew up with the logical understanding of grace. The kind where God loves us despite of our mess ups and he forgives us and gives us grace to try again. He allows us to make mistakes yet He still trusts us. This is all true but to me this was all head knowledge. It almost went in one ear and out the other. Sure, Jesus gives me grace, sure He keeps trusting me because that is who God is. He undeservingly continues to love me in the midst of my sin. But I didn't believe it in my spirit yet. Just in my head. Last week I was leading a worship and intercession time with my leadership class. I'm an over analyser and as I was talking I was criticising myself. "Oh you're talking too fast. Why did you say that? You could have said it a better way." Typical me, thinking I could do it differently and it could come out better, and maybe it would have. But then all of a sudden during that questioning and critiquing the Lord spoke. "There is grace for that." Well sure, "I know that." I thought back. But then all of the sudden I grabbed onto that and then it was like my spirit just understood it. The stress, the over analytical side, the in control part of me let go. It was like something just aligned. It was this freedom that just covered everything. Sure I could still plan but it was about living in the moment. It was about the fact that even if I mess up Jesus still loves me and trusts me because He chooses to do things with me. It's undeserved yet God gives it to us despite our mistakes. That's real love. Sure this was all things I knew before but I finally understood it in my spirit. Sometimes it just takes awhile to get from head knowledge to heart knowledge. It goes to show that even if we grow up Christian and know the right things to say and to do a LOT of the time we don't have it figured out. It's about living in relationship with God to discover his character. Life is so much more stressful now. So trust me when I say discovering God is worth it. Photo via :http://muttonheadstore.tumblr.com
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