encouragement // even when you don’t “need it”

Sometimes people will say, “thank you so much for that comment, it was just the encouragement needed,” or “that was perfect timing, because I really needed to hear that.”

Right now, I don’t need any great encouragement. Its not arrogance or anything like that. I’m just confident that God is doing good things in life of my family right now. Fiscally, the times are not amazing for us, but some of the steps we have taken to be responsible have drawn us closer together and opened up communication that before were lacking.

Spiritually, my quality time invested with God on a daily basis is not where it has been in the past. And while I continue to work on that area on a daily basis, God continues to speak to me through the books I have been reading and several other unique ways as well.

We’ve made some major steps this past year or so musically/production wise at Cornerstone, and we are seeing good things as a result. But I will confess, I fret sometimes and wonder what I’m going to do next and how can I meet other musicians within this body of believers and outside of it that we can pull on board that push us to new heights that we did not know we could go to. But for now, we are moving forward one step at a time in offering excellence and passion as we help focus people in corporate worship on a weekly basis.

There, that was just some honesty on where I am. All that to say that while I wish student loans were paid off and my relationship with Jesus were deeper at times and I were taking even bigger next steps in ministry, I can at least say, I’m taking steps and doing what I can to be obedient.

What God does in the middle of that is encourage me with a passage this morning from 2 Corinthians that says, “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”

So while my steps are not bad and my actions are by best attempts at obedience, I was reminded that He makes me stand firm, He seals me, and He guarantees. I didn’t “need” encouragement, but He is faithful to remind me of His love and I’m grateful today.