So Friday 20th November, I hopped on a train back home, thoroughly excited and expectant for the following w/e with my hometown Students and 20's group. I love a good, peaceful (non-London) train journey, gives one time to reflect, get pensive and even read, if the thoughts get a little sparse! Needless to say by the time we'd arrived I had high expectations and was very excited. To be honest it didn't meet my expectations, (by this point you're expecting me to say "it was better"-but that's cheesy) at least not in the way I expected. I purposely didn't want to limit God and expect Him to meet with us like every other meeting etc. I wanted to think as openly and vaguely as possible, because lets face it God is a great big God full of amazing creativity, so I was thinking broad-He could do anything! And not too shockingly, God surprised me! When doesn't He?! As if God could ever been labelled as predictable! God met with us and definitely challenged me right through the day, even now as I'm back in my uni home the challenging continues. Whether it be from the pressing questions of how can I gain further intimacy with God and am I truly taking up my daily cross and if not, how can I? or whether it be from the personal challenges I'm facing.
God didn't meet with me and others like I expected, what I have found is that, everything learnt over the w/e is so relevant to my life here and that I'm actually going to see fruit from putting what I learnt into action, instead of looking back nostalgically over the weekend's experiences and living off of that. It's time to take the lessons learnt and use them, I want to see fruit, I want greater intimacy with God and I want to be publicly disgraced and mocked, so that I can be that one tiny percentage closer to being like Jesus. I feel almost like I should delete that statement, but God is my life and worth it all. If you're going to do any self searching today or any probing, ask yourself this: How can I gain a deeper intimacy with God? Am I doing all I can to be like Jesus, am I picking up my cross and stepping out as far as possible?
God didn't meet with me and others like I expected, what I have found is that, everything learnt over the w/e is so relevant to my life here and that I'm actually going to see fruit from putting what I learnt into action, instead of looking back nostalgically over the weekend's experiences and living off of that. It's time to take the lessons learnt and use them, I want to see fruit, I want greater intimacy with God and I want to be publicly disgraced and mocked, so that I can be that one tiny percentage closer to being like Jesus. I feel almost like I should delete that statement, but God is my life and worth it all. If you're going to do any self searching today or any probing, ask yourself this: How can I gain a deeper intimacy with God? Am I doing all I can to be like Jesus, am I picking up my cross and stepping out as far as possible?
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if your blog had a facebook 'like it' button i would of just hit it!
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