The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him." Deuteronomy 18:18
I've been going back through the study series. In the past, if you told people you were doing that, it was thought you were struggling in your faith. In the climate of our family of churches, I've seen Disciples just fold their convictions based on what they reread when they went back through the studies. Today, I read Jesus: the Great "I Am." To me, it has been encouraging to read they studies again to help confirm that what I have faith in is true. At the same time, I'm challenging myself to approach the studies with as soft of a heart as possible. This is no easy feat, but I'm enjoying the challenge to hold my tongue, to increase my compassion on others, to have greater patience and just to be submissive to God, and his wisdom to hold me close to him.
Right now, I've been praying for those things as well as figuring out what God is calling me to do, the teens I've been blessed to help to reflect Jesus on to and what is to come when I graduate from culinary school. Amy has challenged me to go for it all and drop my job and start networking to get to the height of my new career, quickly. I'm excited for all these things, and it makes it harder and harder to just let loose and allow myself to just go for it all. I know that God is control of these things, so I just need to let go and let God.
