The lord is always inviting us into more. No matter how far he has brought us, he is just getting started.
Let that settle. HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED. How encouraging is that truth? We can sit with contentment but with also eager expectation for what the lord is going to do in our life.
The past 2 months being in Guatemala the lord has walked me into more freedom, holiness, satisfaction, and intimacy with him. The past 4 months the lord has taken me out a place of doubt, satisfaction in the world, complacency, and sin. He has brought me to a place of greater knowledge, dying to self, desiring him more than ever, a life full of joy, and SO much more. What gets me is that he is nowhere near close to done. He so graciously chooses to keep walking me into more.
That place of doubt, the place of finding satisfaction in the world, complacency of the way I was living for the Lord, and sin I was choosing to indulge in, lead me to a time of letting my earthly desires take over, and set the course of my relationship with Christ. I found myself solely seeking satisfaction from people in verbal, physical, and emotional ways. I was only giving God a small portion of my life. I wasn’t even trusting Him in the little things; let alone my big struggles that seemed impossible to go away. Through out that time I wanted to grow so much, but I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my normal life, or willing to take the big steps in faith that needed to be taken for me to grow. I was also so blinded by the sin I was walking in that I totally convinced myself that I wasn’t walking in sin at all, instead I chose to believe it was from God. He didn’t desire that for me.
God desires for me to be in a place of greater knowledge, dying to myself, to seek more of Him, and a life that is filled with the joy of the lord. This has lead me to solely live for him. I have been walking in more intimacy with the lord by reading His word and seeing who He is. This has given me a desire to grow in knowledge of how He lives and how He wants me to walk in my faith. Sacrificing and surrendering my wants and desires at the foot of the cross daily is not easy, I have fallen short time and time again. The beauty of surrendering is that it no longer stays in that place of challenge, but flows into a place of peace and a time of experiencing His freedom. Instead of sitting in complacency, I have found myself always wanting and looking for more of my father, and since starting to live more for the lord, he has so lovingly filled me with his joy. He has also helped me to walk into more knowledge about Him and how I can serve His people, whether or not I know it.
With just the 4 things I listed, he is still walking with me through these things and refining me in it.
- This past week he has convicted me and started teaching me how to actually spend intentional time with him.
- When he is walking me into more surrender he is also gently keeping me out of the things I’ve already surrendered.
- I find myself in situations where I don’t look like I’m living for him, and by his mercy he draws me back in.
Though he has brought me through so much, the best part is that he isn’t done! Though the lord has brought you through so much or maybe you feel like he hasn’t, the good news for you is that he isn’t done! He is just getting started. I encourage you to sit in eager expectation of what God has in store for you. Not letting what your life looks like right now or what he has done stop you from believing in what he can and is doing in you and in your life. Our father has so much more for us, Let him walk you into that more that He has promised.
Matthew 7:7-12.
ASK, SEEK, KNOCK
REMEMBER no matter where you are at in life, He is with you and HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED!
