Uncertainty is not always bad.

As our family prepares to move to Kenya there is a lot of uncertainty.  We tend to think about uncertainty as unsettling.  I have been asking myself why uncertainty bothers me.  I myself don't like to not know what is going to happen.  Trusting God and walking by faith so many times requires us to trust God and step out with out knowing how things will come together or work out.  It requires a leaning of our thoughts and actions on to God.  I myself find it hard to let go sometimes and fully lean on God.  I am learning to confront the fears that are surfacing in my about fearing what could happen.  Learning to take thoughts captive and cast down imaginations and learn to keep focused on God and reminding myself who He is.

Seeing Better!!

Yesterday I took my children to the eye doctor to get a check.  They will all be getting glasses to help improve there vision.  This makes me think about my walk with God in much the same way.  As we go through trials and difficulties sometimes our vision gets out of focus.  God will bring us to places where we must examine ourselves, our thoughts, actions and sometimes He will bring others to speak a word of correction.  As we humble ourselves and allow Him to show us where our vision is impaired and apply the correction and make changes to our thought life or by spending more time in worship and confession and reading of the word and talking to others.  As we bring our focus back on to Jesus our vision will begin to improve.

The Importance of Interaction

This week we have begun our new homeschool school year.  In teaching my kids I get to interact with them on a instructor teacher level.  I really enjoy this.  I think about why I enjoy it.  I get a opportunity to teach them about new things, we get a chance to explore ideas and put them into practice.  I think about my daily interactions and how I love doing this in group bible studies getting to share our ideas and learn about how others view them.  I think about my personal time with the Holy Spirit and with the Father getting to be a student and my bible devotion time where I am getting instruction to put into practice.  I have areas where I understand really fast and see results and other areas where I struggle more to understand the concepts and how to properly apply them to my life and situations.  We never stop learning in this life.  I enjoy the learning and I enjoy getting to be the teacher and share from my knowledge and experience.

A New Season

Summer is coming to a end and we are entering the season of Fall.  The temperatures will begin to get cooler, the days shorter and less daylight.  Trees will begin to turn beautiful colors and the leaves will begin to fall.  Nature is preparing for a rest.  The fall reminds us that even though things look like they are not appealing and it looks like nothing is taking place that we can't see the rest and regeneration that is taking place inside the trees and below the surface of the ground.  Our spiritual lives sometimes seem this way at times.  We are doing all that we know to do yet it looks like the opposite is happening we have to trust God that even though we can not see what is taking place behind the scenes that He is working in us and as we grow deeper into our relationship with Him He will expose in the open what has been taking place in us.

Unexcpected

 As we go through our day it is is easy to get settled into a routine.  Every day can seem to blend into the next.  When we are following God sometimes out of nowhere He can bring provision, His presence, place a desire to call someone in our heart.  Following God and letting Him direct our steps means to me that I am open to my routine getting interrupted and things not going as I had planned them out this is hard to do sometimes.  Letting go of our ideas of being in control of the things that we deceide to do and let some one else lead us sometimes without knowing very many details can be rather scary.  We must learn to trust God with our lives and the learn how to follow Him.