Journey

Throughout the last couple years of my journey in this life of following Christ, I've come to realize some things. But before I go into the things I've discovered, let me say this; no matter what you go through, no matter how tough or easy it may seem, always allow God to teach you things. Whatever you are going through give it God. This brings me to some things that I've learned or realized about God working in my life.

First, God doesn't always show you the whole picture. He does this on purpose. If God showed is the whole picture of our lives, I believe we would try and change a few things and mess up the rest. God reveals things about our lives and our journey in such a way that it keeps us humble and puts us in that place where we always have to be in communication with Him and allow Him to speak to our lives. God reveals things about our journey in His right timing. More often that not we as humans are not satisfied with the timing that God operates in because, let's face it, we are selfish. We want things when we want it and we want to do things when we want to do it. How awesome it is that God loves us to reveal a portion of our journey at a time.

Second, when we get to that place God has called us to be, it may not always be what it seems. Just like in life, everything may not be what we thought it would be. I believe that God does this as another way to teach us things. If we go through life and everything is exactly what we thought it was...we may not learn as much as we should. God sometimes throws different situations or problems our way to teach us.

It says in Hebrews 12:5-6, "And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: 'My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those he loves and punishes everyone he accepts as a son.'"

Sometimes those things God throws at us, He does it to discipline us because He loves us. Just think back to those times when you got disciplined as a child and how it made you feel to be "grounded" or sit in time out. It feels like crap but our parents did that to teach not to do certain things. The discipline God brings is like that but on a different scale. He is trying to teach what not to do, and challenging us in the areas we need to grown in. We have to be teachable in those moments God is throwing things at us and challenging us. Which brings me to another point.

Third, we always have to be teachable. No matter if you are in ministry as a pastor, lay leader, or just working that job to provide for your family, you always have to have a teachable spirit. If you go through life and always think you know best and never take that criticism well or get offended by someone trying to point things out in your life that you need to improve on, then you will fail. God is always there for and uses people and different things to show you the areas you need to improve on. No matter if it's big or small, there's always something in each and every one of our lives that we need to do better at. I hate to brake it to you, but we are humans and we are NOT perfect. Even though we may have someone that we don't necessarily respect as we do some other people and they are the ones to point some things out that you need to improve on or make a comment that quite possibly could offend you, be teachable and allow God to help you in that area of your life.

So it's been interesting these past couple years on what God is showing me and working on my life. By all means, I don't think I have it all together and I'll be the first one to admit that. This is what God has been speaking into my life and if everyone could just start being teachable in their lives for everything, I believe that God will just continue to pour out into your life and show many new a great things. Ask God for wisdom in your life and open up and be teachable.