I have heard it said by Rick Warren that God often uses tension and transition when he is working in someone’s life.
This past two years has been full of both. I just had lunch with a great friend the other day discussing the scenario below.
I find myself in that awkward [and, for most, probably too familiar state] of feeling like I am doing what I “have” to do to live, not to living to do what I love. This causes a grievous dissonance in my soul. Maybe I’m in a mid-life funk (at 35?).
This is my first entry into the Sunday Set-lists. This was the worship service that I led in one of our daughter works in Queensbury, NY.
Ryan ministered on ‘The Time is Now’. We had a few first time visitors as well as returning visitors. Almost everyone came to the alter at the end of service.
God has been faithful and doing great things in upstate New York. We are beginning to plan for our invite to play two 20 minute sets for ‘Family Faith Night’ for the Albany River Rats hockey game, at the Albany Times Union Center on April 11th.
We too use http://www.planningcenteronline.com to plan and coordinate our services. It has been a TREMENDOUS blessing to our ministry.
Sometimes while walking our path in life, we stop for a second and look forward in the direction we are heading. We look around us and realzie we are no longer where we once were, and are not yet where we are intending to go. In reality we are somewhere in the middle.
I believe most of life is lived in the middle.
We live somewhere between a yesterday and a not to distant tomorrow. But I believe the key lies in being content in the middle.
Philippeans 4:11 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
I am learning, albeit slowly, the joy of living in the middle. Just stopping for a moment and feeling the refreshing breeze of the Spirit of God sweep across my face as if He is saying to me “Keep going, you’re heading in the right direction”
I want to always live in that moment. The moment I am certain of His will, His calling, His purpose for my life and seeing it is being carried out in the middle of everything else.