Hmmmm what about today, what about tomorrow? What about next month. Normal questions that you ask yourself and others ask you.
For me these questions become heightened and intensified as August approaches. August brings change, adventure and new beginnings. God's continued work in my life and the journey He brings me along starts a new chapter. I am headed from the home that Champaign has become and Wheaton continues to be to Northern Ireland. Its beyond changing zip codes or states, but a trip across the pond.
Back to a place where God started a change in me, where he helped me evaluate what my talents gifts and possibilities include. I consider it incredible that over the last 6 years God has taken me to 3 continents, 5 short term missions trips and grown me as a soccer player and a man in ways i never thought possible.
Today I was commissioned by my home church. Glen Ellyn Bible Church. To stand up and feel the support and presence of people who have helped shape me and believe in me was awesome and humbling.
This journey is so exciting and crazy and the closer it comes the more excited i get. To be able to talk about this opportunity with friends and more so excite myself in the possibilities God has in store is one of the best things to experience.
I long to see what God can do through a goofball like me, because He has done so much already and it is for HIS Glory. Whether this whole thing becomes what is fully possible or just a bag of goodness hardship and growth, i will rejoice in the fact that it is what is happening.
So for now i am in the stage of anticipation, of looking forward expectantly to see how my life will be radically changed in a short period of time. To have people so excited for my opportunity is so great and humbling, so i thank you and look forward to keeping up with you and help you get more glimpses into my brain and what God does inside it and share the conversations that occur within and around me!
God is good, and I enjoy seeing more and more of His goodness through people and opportunities as well as the Word. So I leave you with a passage that is on the back of the shirt of the Murlough House to where I am headed again, and to find this verse and its message now is great!
Ephesians 1:11&12 It is in CHRIST that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, (!) part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone
Amen and Amen, Anticipating finding out who I am and what i fully long to live for, and loving the possibility of continuing the journey to find that out soon!
