What Could Be

I’m going to be transparent today. 

This morning I picked up in John chapter 7 as we continue our reading through John during these 8 weeks of Growth Groups.  During my prayer time, I had no idea what to pray about.  Have you ever felt that way?  So you just sit there and listen, trying to hear the voice of God.  In that time, I believe God showed me what I needed to talk with Him about this morning.  

On the side, I’m currently reading the book Visioneering by Andy Stanley.  He describes a vision as a dream about turning what is into what could be. Since my quiet time this morning, I’ve been thinking about some things and what they could be.  Honestly, it has me a little down because I don’t know how to get from here to there.  But that’s where God comes in.  God wouldn’t birth anything in us that we could accomplish on our own.  He wants to do great things (that only He can orchestrate) through us. 

So today there may be some rain.  But you won’t see a rainbow without it.

Mid-Week Update

An eventful week so far.  Work has been slammed.  I’ve been helping with re-organizing some workspaces.  At the end of the day, It’s nice to be able to see progress being made.  I love being a change agent and I was able to help be part of the solution over the last few days.  It’s very satisfying.

I’ve been working really hard on things for CrossPoint as well.  We’re going away as a Leadership Team on Friday and Saturday.  So I’m getting everything ready for Sunday ahead of time.  I’m really excited about the trip.  I’m praying that God will allow us to dream big and get some things accomplished during our short retreat.  And, just as important: that we have fun together.  That is a crucial part of being a team: enjoying being together.  And I don’t think that will be a problem with this group.

Last night I finished reading Wild Goose Chase.  I could write pages and pages on the final cage: fear.  But I won’t get into those details as God continues to stretch me and really mess with me on the subject.  I will write this: I feel as if I’ve hit a crosspoint in my life on this (pun intended).  Have I made my fear bigger than my God?  When faced with a choice, I tend to not do something because of what bad might happen.  All this time I’ve missed out on what good God can do through it.  I don’t know what it all means, but I do know that God is still working on me and right now he’s taking a hammer and chisel to my pre-conceived notions about myself.  Who knows me better than my Creator?

Last night I also started Visioneering by Andy Stanley.  It will go right along with our current series at CrossPoint: Life Development Plan.  God has a vision for me.  That’s amazing to me.

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  – Ephesians 2:10

God created me with a vision to do a specific thing or things for Him.  Too often we think we aren’t qualified.  And the thing is: He’s already equipped us to fill that vision.  We just need to step up and do them.  As I read in my study through Nehemiah, we should always pray.  But there comes a time to get up and actually get to work to make the vision a reality.  I’m asking God that the next five weeks at CrossPoint as well as my reading through Visioneering will continue to drill this principle home.