Hungry // ready to feast
Physically I am starving right now. But that’s not the point.
For the past several months I have experienced some of the most transformational moments of my journey with Christ. Most of this can be attributed to the amount of reading that I’ve been able to accomplish. It has been beautiful to watch how one book has tagged right into the next. What I feel like is that God has a very specific path He is leading me down with these books and a clear message to teach me in it about the next steps for my family. But I feel like the only way I’m going to be able to fully grasp the message is to press forward in this book a week deal to get it.
So in the midst of this, I’m hungry and ready to feast. It’s as if God is placing little nuggets of the meal in front of me right now instead of placing me at the main course. Well, I don’t really care if I get to a full feast as long as He will keep giving me morsels to chew on.
How is God is transforming you? What’s His method right now? Sometimes the way God grows us is to just sit in the oasis where we just sit and don’t really have to “do” a whole lot so much as we just have to “be.” Sometimes we are the desert, trudging along and have about as clear of an answer as we would if we were in the oasis even though those two places are totally different (hopefully that makes sense). Sometimes, you’re in a season like me where you can identify what and how God is moving in you even if you don’t have clear answers about what He’s doing in a complete sense. But if you can’t answer either of those questions, I think that’s not a good thing.
Start a conversation with me, if you didn’t have time you wouldn’t be reading…
Biscuet
Sunday, 29th March 2009 at 5:09 am
The Unreached People of the Day in your sidebar is the Naxi of China. I read that and cried. I don’t know what that says about where i am in my journey, but i know that i moved to China more than a year ago and i still cry when i see a picture of these amazing people in the sidebar of a blog. In a moment of rare transparency i’ll tell you that i type this through the blur of tears as i think of the unreached people of this nation that i’m sitting in at this very moment. Again, i don’t know what that says about my journey or if that brings an answer to the question you asked. But it tells me that i must be in the right place and doing what he put in my heart to do… love people.
cheryl
Wednesday, 1st April 2009 at 4:06 pm
I have often thought I am just weird, but then I read biscuet’s comment which made my mind go to those people the Lord has burdened my heart for in Africa. I realize how much God has changed my heart. How is He transforming me right now? He reminds me almost daily of things that are truly important and things I should not be concerned about…things that formerly may have seemed very important to me.