A New Beginning

I am going to try to do a better job of updating my blog while I am away over the next few months. It may be difficult for me to do it regularly and get in the habit of blogging. However, I promise to give it a go and see where it takes me. Hopefully into your homes and into your hearts.

If you do not already know I will be leaving in October to spend some time doing mission work in Alabama. I am really excited about the opportunity to go and know that this is the plan that God has had for me long before I knew exactly what it was. I have felt God's call to full-time ministry for a while now; however, I was unsure of what that call was or what that meant for me. My biggest desire is to follow after God, wherever He leads me I will follow. In the book of Matthew the disciple is talking about wanting to follow after him but needing to go and bury his father and Jesus says "come and follow me, let the dead bury the dead". This scripture speaks mountains to me and dropping my analytical and worldly desires to follow obediently to his call; not later but now. I know that it is where I meet Christ in that Obedience that he will take care of my every move.

Over the past couple of years God has completely transformed me and in essence has refined me. This has been the word that God has been speaking to me the past couple of days; this thought of refining. God has done a great work in me and He is not yet finished refining me. The picture of this refining though is beautiful to me and my hope is that it makes him smile too. I want to live my life in step with the Spirit everyday and this next step is trusting in his Spirit to guide my every move and my every desire.

Isaiah 48:9-11

New International Version (NIV)


9 For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath;
for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
so as not to destroy you completely.
10 See, I have refined you, though not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this.
How can I let myself be defamed?
I will not yield my glory to another.


God, continue to refine me and bring me closer to you!