2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
This was my reading for the morning. I love this verse. I have it taped to the side of my bookcase and see it first thing every morning when I wake up. There are so many wonderful things in here, but this part is my favorite....."may he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do." YOUR FAITH.
Raise your hand if you have ever not done something or made a decision because "well Jesus if I just knew for sure what you wanted me to do, I would do it, but I just dont know..." My hand is raised. I say that kind of stuff all the time to God. "God if you could just make it clear- aka EASY- then I would have no problem...." fill in the blank... praying for that random person, serving at so and so or whatever it is. But that is the thing, thats what it is saying here, our faith- what it prompts us to do. If Jesus said, "Jessica I want you to move to Haiti because youre going to do a,b,c meet sally and sarah, stay there for 1 year..." I would be like ok I can do that because its all laid out. Or an even more day to day example- "Jessica I need you to talk to that woman and when you do say this and she is going to say this and then she will become a believer." YEAH RIGHT. I mean yes maybe. But that negates the faith. Its faith. Our faith prompts us, we say yes (hopefully) and THEN the power comes that enables us, giving us wisdom, words, etc.
Its funny because I read that this morning, prayed about it, did a mini devo with our department (me and one other person) on it, and then was presented with an opportunity to exercise it. It was still hard. 2 minutes after the faith prompting I decided to say yes, made my driver turn around, went back, and the person wasnt there. What could have would have should have happened I dont know. And I have some theories about what the Lord was teaching me in that moment. But I hope I have made my point. We cannot wait until all the road signs are clear- thats not faith. If it wasnt hard, if it wasnt sometimes scary, if it wasnt haiti, if it wasnt unknown then it just wouldnt be faith. All we do is step out and when we do, man does he make a way. Like through traffic so you can turn at the perfect moment to intercept that person or whatever it is. He makes a way cause He's good.
Anyways, that was my day. That and getting dog poop on my pants, glue on my pants, getting farted on, being tickled to death again, eating rice, watching the Little Mermaid, running on the beach (hardest thing ever especially because I already loathe running) and now a 9 pm bedtime.
Tomorrow is Friday, I can hardly believe it. The weeks FLY here for some reason. This weekend I will be working on my tan and receiving more coffee creamer- praise God because I have gone through 48 of those little mini liquid ones in 9 days- 9 days. That is insane. So keep them coming :)
Oh and ps. this was my view tonight. #paradise
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