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Newsletter April 2013
Posted by
Raphael
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Ever Faithful ever true
Posted by
Raphael
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Ever Faithful ever true
this is just one little attribute to the amazing and ginormous God that we can follow… Yet it is one that really stuck out to me in my recent walk with God. It is one that in his grace God has shown me over the last half a year and I am sure still all I have learned is just a glimpse of Gods faithfulness.
In my times with him I went through all the verses in the bible talking about "trust" and just be reading out all those verses I could see how trustworthy our God is!
And clearly he showed up in my life… In July I left Germany starting a new adventure in the USA being part of lovely pioneering team for a new YWAM Base in San Jose, California. Silicon Valley, full of major technology companies… one of the most expensive cities to live in. I came here, enough money for my flight and the conviction that God has called me here for the next bit of my life… Gods provision kicked in not a day to late! He once again proofed himself faithful and true! After eight month in the US I look back and see how he was always right there. On my own life I can see clearly that God is amazingly faithful, and even when I am failing he doesn't fail me. He is trustworthy and he is it in all areas of life.
I just showed up one aspect here, but God did not show up in my life with money! He gave me comfort when I needed it, cried with me when I cried and laughed with me in the happy days. When I was wrestling for month with the things I believe he told me at the end I found myself in a deep pit of contentment and peace in my heart. He led myself to trusting him completely for my today and my future. Knowing that he can do all things! Knowing all I have to do is stick to him and I stick with the best life I can have. Knowing that it might look very different then I expect but that he sees the whole picture. Knowing that his timing might be different but that it is perfect. Knowing that he knows better what is best for me than I do.
The best thing living with God is that continually he will work in us. One of the phrases that I keep being reminded of is "God didn't die for us so we can work for him, but that we can have a relationship with God"… It is so easy to get busy and do all the good stuff for God, coming into a grove and task oriented totally forgetting about what God is all about! Relationship! He created everything out of perfect community and he let us into that community. So we should pause and remember where we are in that community! Or that we are in that community! God is all about us! So maybe we should not focus on everything else?!
BUT God is faithful and he keeps drawing be back to him. And that is grace. When I wonder of he draws me back to him.
Thank you God for not relenting and chasing me until I can't hide!
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