it's amazing how God works things out... i signed up to go the resurgnce conference because i have hunger to hear words from Godly men. having conversation about spiritual things, asking questions and bouncing ideas off of people really gets me fired up!
Chandler, Piper and Driscoll
i was planning on flying over to seattle for the conference sunday night, but all of the flights appeared to be full... it can go either way flying stand-bye when the plane looks full, so i decided not to risk it and texted steve, the pastor at my church in spokane (who was also going to the conference) to see when he was leaving. turned out that he had one open seat in his car. he was going with three other guys from the church, but one of the guys got over there early and only needed a ride back... i only needed a ride there... awesome. i had a chance to get to know two other guys whos names i did not even know before hand.
the road to megan and i staying in spokane was a long one... our plan was to just stay here long enough for megan to finish up school and then head out some place we had never been for a few years while i finished up my school... and then eventually move back. well, we wound up settling on spokane. megan found a great job here, and i found a program at ewu that i wanted to do. plus it is real cheap in spokane, so we figured we could stick it out here a little longer. after we made that decision i stumbled upon moody bible institute... a long story short, it now looks like i will be starting there in the fall if everything falls into place. Gods way of getting me to this place and making that decision was a brilliant. its one of those things that you hear and say, "wow" and thats all that you need to say, because... God is wow. we dont always get the privledge to see what God is cooking up for us, but when he does, it is so encouraging.
i was encouraged last week while i was at the conference... more so affirming my decision to go to moody. the bible, and Gods people is where my heart is and has been for a long time, and i cant wait to dig in! it not only encouraged me, but it opened my eyes to the sheer power of the gospel... i have a problem with criticizing the church and how we should do ministry... i have seen us fail in so many areas and seen so many missed opportunities that my thinking becomes, "well if we would have done this different, or if i would have just tried harder or changed that one thing..." and i get distracted from the only thing that really matters, which is the message and gospel of Jesus Christ. im shaking my head at myself right now because all of those frustrations that i have do have validity, but it all starts with the gospel and then all of this other stuff comes up under that. its all in perspective for me, and mine was not clear. having the gospel at the fore front of my mind in all my thinking and decision making will hum a different tune than if i did otherwise. and it all starts with my heart. only God knows my heart. and i need to take heed to that.
