Date: November 14th 2008
Time: 2:00 pm
Location:
Occasion: Just finished 5 day Romans teaching and writing a letter to my friend Lou
Father, I have written a letter to Lou, but I dare not exclude you from this moment or this friendship. Thank you for all the blessings in my life; for my family, my friends and your daily provision. Thank you for who you have created me to be and your deep grace and patience in taking me there. I am indebted to you in each and every way possible and will forever remain yours no matter what storms I meet along the way. Thank you for the journey of life and your presence that travels with me. I look forward to growing in relationship with you even until I am old and grey passing from this body unto the next and then remaining ultimately and always forever yours.
Proceeding thoughts:
God has given himself to us; not merely to us as individuals, but us collectively as his kids. And he doesn’t want us to grow merely as individuals in giving ourselves back to him, but collectively together as his body. No one can claim a monopoly on God – all of us share in him and we do this best together as he intended.
Over the past few years I have been praying a lot about God’s plans and purposes in my life assuming the whole time that regarded vocation or what type of ‘ministry’ I was to pursue. But at the ripe old age of twenty-two I am beginning to see something altogether different from that which I first assumed. Maybe, God’s plans and purposes is not for me to structure my life around ‘vocation,’ but around relationships. The most important and valuable ‘possession’ God has given us is relationship – relationship with God and relationship with his kids – everything else grows out of this bedrock.
Now when I find myself praying about God’s plans for the future I find myself wanting to plan my life, and plan my vocation around what is of primary importance and that my friends isn’t vocations, ministry positions, or even religion, but relationships. So, I ask myself and I ask you this question; what are you living for and honestly is it worth your time?
3 comments:
Sam--
(this is random, and we've not spoken since 5th grade. But blog reading is just a good Sunday afternoon-y thing.) I just wanted to say that I think that your brain is on to something. From the very beginning, God created us to live in relationship and God is such a relational God. I am certain that no matter what you end up doing with your life, you will not be able to avoid relationship. And, not only that, God will guide you to the right ones if you keeeeep depending on him. The only thing that will matter in the end are the relationships you built with people and the relationship that you have with God. You know this, so be encouraged, God's got plans. (:
I am sure blessed that you are in a relationship with our Father and that you are my son. You will be missed around the Thanksgiving Day table but in our thoughts and prayers. I love YOU!
Yeah bud! im going thru this right now too. Learning that it's not so much about where or what but with who. COOL...
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