Being content

Hey y’all I haven’t really updated you about my future lately or what my thoughts are for my future so I thought I would do that now.  I’m not sure what 2019 will bring.  I’m not sure what beyond that will bring.  I just trust in. God that will bring His plans for my life to pass.   Right now I am still working towards the ACBC certification.  I don’t know if that will happen before or after I graduate.  I’m still praying about going to Hawaii but I don’t know when that will happen.  I’m praying about trying to get a youth or music ministry internship at a church somewhere while having some kind of job and trying to get more experience in ministry.  I don’t know if you are like this but I want to be content with everything but then when I don’t get what I want I just want to throw a hissy fit sometimes. It makes me think of James 4 where it says you want and do not have.  I was listening to a observation video from the IBCD from Jim and Carolyn Newheiser.  They were talking about this verse with a couple that was going to marriage counseling.  They were saying it isn’t necessarily wrong or a sin to have expectations but it’s how you react when you don’t get what you want.  I may not get what I want right now and I may never get it but I need to have the spirit of God I will trust you and I know you know what is best for me.  I know wherever it is that you send me is where you want me and that you will use me for to point others to you and bring glory to your name.  I guess contentment isn’t something that is always easy but it is a choice that you make.  Do we really believe the things we say about God or do we really believe the things we say we believe, like wherever He leads we’ll go or is that just something we say?  In May I am planing on graduating with a biblical counseling degree.  I don’t know what will happen or how God will use this experience in my life and I don’t think we have to have all the answers necessarily.  Sometimes we just need to wait on God to show us the answers.  I don’t believe that means we should be active.  I think we should still be praying and seeking out God’s will for our life but that we should do that with a spirit that is willing to wait on God and say God wherever you lead me I’ll go, even if that’s not where I would have thought you would have taken me because in the end what He has for you is the best.  His plans for us are always the best and are to make us more like Christ.  Thankful to run this race with y’all.

“Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:12-14

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