December 6, 2005

To see how quickly God brings things into focus when it's time.

I've been shown how important that patience really is in God's plans for us. It had come to a point about a week ago where I was starting to think that maybe I was just making up the things I thought God was telling me to do. I was starting to think that maybe I was just putting things together and adding two plus two because I wanted it to be that way. But regardless, I figured that maybe I was still wrong, and God was working. So I stuck with it.

In less than a week, I've gone from looking to a job to having a new job. Without even really realizing what was happening. That's how quickly God can plow a problem out of the way, if we have patience for when it's going to happen.

Just today, He has opened so many doors.

With every door I had to close today, He showed me two more open, with bigger things on horizon.

This service I think God is leading me to feels more and more right every passing minute. The ideas He passes along to me are amazing, and the reception to the idea has been outstanding, to say the least. I am excited to see where God takes us with this endevour.

I'm finding it harder and harder to think in terms of society standards. More and more often, I feel like the things the world lives by are things that are becoming alien to me. Accepted parts of life are things that shouldn't be accepted parts of life. Fellowship and love are giving way to a notion that revenge is the best way to resolve conflict, and sex is the best way to work on a relationship.

These notions scare me. It scares me because though I desire it, I'm never beyond the temptation from all of these, or being snared by some of them at some point.

Despite that, I am loved. I am forgiven every. Single. Time.

This love captures me anew like a firefly every day.

When we're given a gift, from anyone, how often to we stick around to let them know how much we appreciate it? Is it any different with God? After we are given a blessing, do we overindulge in the gift, and forget He who gave us the gift?