This month has been quite a journey I must say. I have had a lot of time just to work the property and utilize that time to pray, worship, and just spend time with God. It has been AMAZING! God has placed people here in my life that have been incredible! There are so many people in my church here that I have been able to just connect with. It is very interesting in fact the groups of people I have been hanging out with lately has not been people my own age. I am surrounded every Sunday morning with kids in children's church and then when that is over I go help clean up in church and run into all my older friends. I was blessed this last Sunday to go over to "Mummy's" some of my older friends and I were going to go out to eat. (when I say older it means a lil older than me like 55-60) And as we were getting ready to go to our normal hangout spot Sharky's a sports bar where on Sunday's church people take over!! Anyways we were going there and we caught wind that Mummy the church secretary's mom had just cooked that morning! Our attention quickly shifted to calling Mummy (TOTALLY ISLAND STYLE HERE) telling her we were on our way over to have lunch with her. SHE WAS ECSTATIC!! She said there was food for 4 and low and behold that is how many we had!! So I got to spend the afternoon with my friends. I was blessed to spend the afternoon trying island favorites that I had never had an opportunity to try nor the desire but surprisingly enjoyed it!! Something that really stuck with me at the end of the afternoon when we were leaving was something that Mummy said. She thanked me for "taking time to hang out with the old people." And then a couple that I have spent almost every Sunday afternoon with for the past few months, even going sailing with numerous times spoke up also in a similar way saying "Mummy we don't understand but he really enjoys hanging out with us old fogies." All I could do was laugh because its so TRUE, I truly do enjoy the conversations that take place in the older crowd, the wisdom these people have is unmatched. AND I JUST WANT TO SOAK IT UP!!! I was able to look upon the last few months and think I have spent time with all age groups: little kids, teens, my peers, every age up to however old Mummy is maybe 70-80??? It is awesome to see the opportunities I have had to befriend, love on, and speak into the lives of so many people in just the weekly relationships from church!! I have an opportunity for the next 3 weeks to lead our men's bible study, the same bible study that I am the youngest one by 20 years and I was asked to lead it while the normal leader is off island. WHAT AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE!!! God has been so good to me, as I have found the importance of the tiny meaningless activities he has placed before me and seen how I appreciate those times he trusts me with greater opportunity! I can honestly say I have never felt more content with where I am than right now. I know I am in the middle of God's will and I am enjoying every moment. To know and understand that every morning when GOD WAKES ME UP, he wakes me up because there are specific things that ONLY I CAN DO FOR HIM! If others could do them he wouldn't have woke me up!! I have found a whole new level of intimacy with Him and it is quite incredible. There have been a few sermon topics that I have discovered and began to ponder upon, ready whenever he allows me to share them!! I can truly say I am living out 2 Timothy 4:2...........Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season! I am in a season of preparation, and SOON God is going to unleash me and oh baby stand back cuz lives are going to be transformed by the power of God at work!! What an amazing place to be in right now, seeing all the opportunities that are before me. Working in one of the worst projects on island bringing God to them, leading Kings Kids, leading bible study, helping in an all black youth group and not feeling intimidated, things are taking shape and I am finding my sphere of influence to be not just a single age or people group but EVERYONE I MEET! The grocery store checker, the mailman, the dealer on the corner, the homeless dude that lives in the bush, EVERYONE and I get the opportunity if I choose to take it to encourage and show the love of God to each and every one of them!! If only every believer could grasp that simple way of life, seeing everything they do as worship to God and seeking to Glorify Him in all things great and small!
4The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:4-6
