A long time coming...

It's been a long time since I've posted, but I'm still here!  I didn't fall of the face of the earth!

The past 6 months have been a crazy ride!  Thankfully, we finished our house, and it's so nice.  God is SO good!  I am teaching at a new school where my team prays together each week!  God is SO amazing!  He has challenged/reminded me of His call on my life.  The last few years have been very challenging - both in ministry and just life in general.  Thankfully, God is faithful, even when I am not.  And God is good, always!  I am finishing up a study on spiritual warfare in my personal study time.  I am reminded that the battle is fierce.  I am encouraged that I am not alone in this fight, and especially that I am not losing my mind!  I am also reminded that the enemy attacks only when we are a threat to him, and that God has called me to serve Him.

A verse he gave to me a while back was from Esther 4:14.  In this passage, Mordecai tells Esther, “for if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”  Now, I believe that he has the same call for Christians.  I don't want to spend this life here just doing "stuff", having no lasting affect on those around me.  I want to be a change agent.  I want people to know that there is something far more reaching than this life on earth.  It is tough, it does stink many days.  I know.  I remember praying that He would help me to see people as He sees them.  The result was not what I expected, but has definitely changed my life.  During this time, I have had a glimpse of the struggles people go through.  It has been so tough, and at times, it didn't seem like God was even there at all.  Sometimes, the only thing I had to hang on to was what God had done for me before, who He had shown Himself to be before, and who His Word says He is.  While I still don't understand everything, and may never understand it all, I know God more intimately.  I understand another aspect of His character as a holy, sovreign God. 

For once, I don't fear what is to come.  There is great peace in that.  I know that my Father knows best.  That He has created me in His image do to His work.  That He loves me with an everlasting love.  That there is something that I am created to be.  I see a glimpse of it.  And for now, I keep traveling through this journey called life...waiting to see where He leads me next...