About a month ago, I was talking to Morgan Clark about his experience in Colorado Springs, and I asked him about what God had been teaching him. Without pause, he said... "wherever you are, BE ALL THERE." He went on to tell me all sorts of other things that He'd been learning and realizing, but that one sentence in particular struck me.
Being in the military, my wife and I spend a good amount of time planning and plotting where the Air Force will move us next. Where will we go? What kind of job will I have? Will I have to deploy? How should we prepare for the future?
I feel like I've been asking a lot of the wrong questions... maybe these questions would be more appropriate... How can I be a better husband, NOW? a better father, NOW? a better pastor, NOW? a better pilot, NOW?
If we deal with today, with what God has called us to now... we allow our future to be in His hands instead of our own. Does that mean I shouldn't plan ahead? NO! But it does mean that my plans are not necessarily His plans and the more room I leave for Him to do His thing, the better off I'll be.
While I'm in Cheyenne... while I have small children...while I'm in the Air Force... while I'm at Element... while I'm leading theSHIFT... God has called me to BE ALL HERE!
This is the only place that I KNOW that God has specifically called me to! Why do I spend so much time worrying about what's next?
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - Epicurus
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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Thanks man. Wish I could take credit. ha.
"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." (Jim Elliot)
Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
(Luke 12:22-26)
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