It’s 11:17pm on Tuesday night June 30, 2009. It seems lately around this time I catch a second wind, inspiration to read, write, think, comes in and I can’t shake it. I can’t help but think about what the Lord is currently doing in my life and what he was done in my life. The theme these past few days has been gratitude and humility. In looking back at these past 4 years of my life I cant help but to be overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude and a sense of deep humility for the Lord. I feel like what has happened I could not have planned or imagined at all! And I feel like what is to come, I can’t even plan or imagine! This blows my mind!
I am so grateful for what the Lord has done in these last few years, my time in Baton Rouge Louisiana, and my time back in Los Angeles as a youth pastor! It seems like my entire life people have planted seeds; my parents, my youth pastors, my friends, and when I moved to Louisiana in 2005, those seeds grew like never before! Who I am today is not a result of an internship necessarily, I am a result of constant prayer and sowing and correction and patience and love. Truly, Apollo’s planted the seed, Paul watered, but it was God who made it grow! I am so grateful to the planters and the waterers!
I love that scripture that says we cannot even conceive the things that God has planned for those who love him. I always love the fact that the scripture doesn’t say those planned things God has are received because we pray to him, or read, or do good works, but rather, it goes to the core, simply, to those who love him. Amazingly, everything else is a bi-product of loving him. When I think of all the Lord has done so far my heart is filled with gratitude and with humility, my response is, “God, I could not have planned that any better, thank you for where you have taken me, and thank for where you are taking me next.” Humility comes when we acknowledge that the leading is not our own but Gods. I am so excited about what is to come! Simply: I love Jesus. Blow my mind.
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