A New Transition is the next part of the life series that started with Life and Shenanigans. In this we'll walk through what God has in store for the next 96 days before I am set to be in Oregon for YWAM. I can't wait to journey through the next 96...
"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." -Psalm 139:13-16
If God was intentional with us, and we're supposed to be like God, shouldn't we also be intentional? This is something that God has really been working on me about. My intentionality has pretty well sucked lately, and I used to be really good about intentionality, but then I got weary doing good. As my dear friend Rebekah says "unmet expectations cause weariness while doing good." And that is exactly what I was struggling with, unmet expectations while doing good.
Today I had my ladies small group Bible study as I do every Saturday morning, however it started off kind of discouraging. One lady had a teachers meeting, one had to do some work at the church painting the youth building , and the other just didn't show up. So without them it left just me and my friend Morgan Lange.
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But the Word tells us that where 2 or 3 are gathered in His name there He is with us and when 2 come into agreement on earth, it will happen. Just as promised He revealed Himself to us this morning as we opened His Word together.
This morning, before the study even started weariness set in. I started the ladies small group last month with the expectation that everyone would be as excited about it as Morgan and I were. Instead I have to pretty well harass the other ladies to get them to show up. I started a good thing: gathering in a public place to study the Word of God with the expectation to come closer to not only Him but to each other, and unmet expectations caused weariness.
Then I looked across the table to Morgan and she was excitedly flipping through her Bible searching for the verse she was oh so eager to share with me, and I knew everything was okay. I knew as long as we remained faithful we would be blessed for our faithfulness.
Today we talked all about intentionality. We discussed how we need to be intentional in our relationships, both platonic and concerning significant others, (pouring into them, loving on them, ect) and how we need to be intentional with studying the Word with said relationships.
Intentionality is vital in relationships with our fellow humans. If we're not intentional we will never reach that level of closeness that, as humans, we desire to have with our counterparts. We have to love on our people; hugging them, giving them high fives, patting them on the back. We have to give them words of encouragement and affection. We need to pour into them praying for them, worshiping with them, and reading scripture with them.
In order to have true (platonic) intimacy with our fellow humans, we have to grow more intimate with God. The more intimate that we grow with God, the more intimate we can be with our people.
Lord, help me to truly grasp the concept of Intentionality as I prepare to go to YWAM. Help me to love on all my treasures and be intimate and intentional with them.
