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So I was driving around the other day wondering (again) if God has a specific place for each of us to be, or if we just land where we land. I was thinking about wanting to be back home, and wondering why I wasn’t. I don’t know the answer to that, but I felt that God was telling me that for now He wants me in a place where He is my focus. He is the thing that’s always on my mind. But why? Because God has called me - all of us, to do the impossible. As Chip said, with God the impossible becomes the imperative. I am compelled. To be active in this world for His plans. To be Radar to his Hawkeye. This world is in such dire, dire need of His touch. A wilting, dying, suffering flower all but given up hope for a drop of water. And that's where we come in. Being the balm of gilead to the world’s sores. And there are so many sores that need healing.
But more than that (can there be more than that), God is calling me to Him. To trust His character. To trust that if He has me here it’s because this is THE best place for me. Because in this place I’ll know Him more. I always get it backwards. I think that the point of knowing Him is to be better at doing His work. But in truth, the point of doing His work is to know Him. That is the end goal. The Westminister Shorter Catechism is this: man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
Praise God if the world suffers a little less because me, but if at the end of my life I don’t know Him any more than I do right now, then it’s spensible (my son’s made up word for useless or unwanted things). God, help me to trust, to have faith that you want the best for me. Because you want the best for me. Not because it’s some workaround way of getting what you want. It’s so hard to think about, but you love me more than I love my son, E. Help me to trust that more than anything.
But more than that (can there be more than that), God is calling me to Him. To trust His character. To trust that if He has me here it’s because this is THE best place for me. Because in this place I’ll know Him more. I always get it backwards. I think that the point of knowing Him is to be better at doing His work. But in truth, the point of doing His work is to know Him. That is the end goal. The Westminister Shorter Catechism is this: man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
Praise God if the world suffers a little less because me, but if at the end of my life I don’t know Him any more than I do right now, then it’s spensible (my son’s made up word for useless or unwanted things). God, help me to trust, to have faith that you want the best for me. Because you want the best for me. Not because it’s some workaround way of getting what you want. It’s so hard to think about, but you love me more than I love my son, E. Help me to trust that more than anything.
Matthew 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
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