Yesterday marked a big milestone in my life.
It was my two year anniversary at Creekside.
The thing that is so amazing to me, is how God has blessed me so richly in spite of my reluctance and fear of obeying His call.
When He asked me to go, I had no idea some of the most amazing days of renewal and restoration where ahead. You see, I had my own renewal plan, and it included never doing ministry at a church again. Ever.
And I sit here typing this post, still not fully aware of the spiritual blessings of trusting Our Father.
But I do know this; The risk of fully trusting Him is immensely outweighed by the blessings you receive.
The blessings might be disguised as things you learn about yourself....
Or learning how to continue to trust Him as He peels back the layers you are so tightly clinging to....
Or realizing He has placed a calling on your life, one that you are no longer able to deny.
Or relationships with other believers that are the way you wanted to believe Christians alone could possess through the blood of our Savior........
Or watching grown men getting baptized then turning around and baptizing their wives, and their children.....
Or it could be as simple as realizing that the pressure's off when you trust Him. It really, really is......
Monday, November 20, 2006
The longest six months of my life...
Posted by Ashlee Liddell at 4:14 PM
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I love to hear about the place you're at and how God is working there and also working with you. I am very slowly seeing that same pattern in my life: that God is using my circumstances to open me up, wake me up, or grow me up.
Also, I DID notice the Larry Crabb reference at the end, chica...."the pressure's off." I just had to laugh at the way that lesson is haunting me by always coming up and relating to things. Even though I don't understand that phrase yet, it's become a familiar friend.
Glad you found the reference funny, because I certainly was thinking about you when I wrote it! I, of course, am not meaning to haunt you with it, but perhaps find some humor in it instead!
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