Well I have been back in the States for about a week and a half this time around and thought I better write as this blog is all about the lessons learnt while traveling the world.
I have enjoyed coming back to the big old US of A! It's different this time round as it is each time I travel. I have loved coming back to some of the places I have previously visited, seeing familiar sites and catching up with friends! But what I have loved even more is meeting new friends, new people who have already been such a blessing to my life! It's funny how you can go into a place with expectations of what it's gonna be like, who the people you meet will be, but I love it how time and time again God surprises me by the things I learn and the blessings He pours into my life!
I love God, I love Him with all my heart, mind and soul! But I have not been showing that lately. Before coming to America my life was sooooo busy (with good things like college, work and ministry) but I was not placing God in the number one spot! Don't get me wrong I never disowned Him, or turned my back on Him but my life became so busy that He was not priority, He did not get the place of honor, the time He deserved as Lord of my life! And I hate that! I hate that I let it get to that! I hate that I let life get that busy again.
So why did I? How did I? I think filling our lives with things is what we humans do best, I think it's what the devil uses the most to create a wedge between us and God. And it's so easy to keep placing things in our lives that keep us busy and consume us to the point where we don't have time for God, more than that to the point where we don't think we need God, that we think we know best and that only these 'things' will satisfy us. And that is not a path I want to go down.! I have seen people do that, and have seen how empty, hopeless and joyless their lives truly were!
So this trip, this time away from college, work, young life, church, family and friends (all good things), is my wake up call!!! Who is The Lord of my life? Whom do I serve? Who is my number one? The answer to all those questions is GOD! But do my actions show that? Lately no, so this is me saying I am working on that! And am I gonna be able to perfect it and change it by myself? NO!!!! But thankfully the author and perfecter of my faith is continually doing a work in me. And day by day I rest in His unwavering grace! As a result of His son and what He did I am set free and given the ability and strength to have a personal relationship with Him!! How great that is!
"The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven." Hebrews 1:3
What a great thing! The Son of God who shows all His glory, who is with God, who's is God, came to Earth, paid the penalty for my sin and now sits enthroned in heaven! How can I not make Him Lord of my life?!?!
So pray for me, as I will each one of you that I would continue to put Him first, place Him in the seat of honor day by day! To truly make Him Lord of my life!!
God bless xxx
I have enjoyed coming back to the big old US of A! It's different this time round as it is each time I travel. I have loved coming back to some of the places I have previously visited, seeing familiar sites and catching up with friends! But what I have loved even more is meeting new friends, new people who have already been such a blessing to my life! It's funny how you can go into a place with expectations of what it's gonna be like, who the people you meet will be, but I love it how time and time again God surprises me by the things I learn and the blessings He pours into my life!
I love God, I love Him with all my heart, mind and soul! But I have not been showing that lately. Before coming to America my life was sooooo busy (with good things like college, work and ministry) but I was not placing God in the number one spot! Don't get me wrong I never disowned Him, or turned my back on Him but my life became so busy that He was not priority, He did not get the place of honor, the time He deserved as Lord of my life! And I hate that! I hate that I let it get to that! I hate that I let life get that busy again.
So why did I? How did I? I think filling our lives with things is what we humans do best, I think it's what the devil uses the most to create a wedge between us and God. And it's so easy to keep placing things in our lives that keep us busy and consume us to the point where we don't have time for God, more than that to the point where we don't think we need God, that we think we know best and that only these 'things' will satisfy us. And that is not a path I want to go down.! I have seen people do that, and have seen how empty, hopeless and joyless their lives truly were!
So this trip, this time away from college, work, young life, church, family and friends (all good things), is my wake up call!!! Who is The Lord of my life? Whom do I serve? Who is my number one? The answer to all those questions is GOD! But do my actions show that? Lately no, so this is me saying I am working on that! And am I gonna be able to perfect it and change it by myself? NO!!!! But thankfully the author and perfecter of my faith is continually doing a work in me. And day by day I rest in His unwavering grace! As a result of His son and what He did I am set free and given the ability and strength to have a personal relationship with Him!! How great that is!
"The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven." Hebrews 1:3
What a great thing! The Son of God who shows all His glory, who is with God, who's is God, came to Earth, paid the penalty for my sin and now sits enthroned in heaven! How can I not make Him Lord of my life?!?!
So pray for me, as I will each one of you that I would continue to put Him first, place Him in the seat of honor day by day! To truly make Him Lord of my life!!
God bless xxx
