No I’m talking about the weather, life can be just the same.  Looking back on the previous blog I can only shake my head and grin with a light ha….and a low….wow…look how the tables have changed.  I’m no longer in Nebraska.  I’m in a one bedroom apartment in Cincinnati.  I have different jobs, churches I’m attending and other new opportunity & experiences coming about.  My life I can say… has been… 100% adventure.  There has been many instances where I stop and ask God… so what now?  It’s been taking sometime to understand exactly what I’m doing here… but when you allow God to direct your path as He should be “the light unto my path,” you can guarantee life is going to come at you with many unknowns & uncertainties.  I will admit it’s been rough, uneasy, extremely uncomfortable, I’ve had my ups and downs… Do I know exactly what will happen next.. of course not, neither do you.  Most of the time we can predict our day to day activities… when we’re settled in, but even then life may throw a curveball at you…this one seemed to have had a direct hit to my face.  I cannot predict what will happen 5-10 years down the road.  I can pursue and ready myself for such things that I believe will happen, but it seems my plans have always been shifted by God’s unique design… “His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.”  The reason for this blog was simply because of a verse that I just read about Peter telling Jesus that he shouldn’t talk a certain way.

Mark 8:31-33 (NLT)

³¹ Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man^[a] must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.³² As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things.^[b]

³³ Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. “Get away from me, Satan!” he said. “You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”

Isn’t that how we often treat life most times?  With the understanding of our human brains.  It’s okay not to understand what God is doing.  Walking by Faith and not by Sight doesn’t come easy.  Like Peter I need to take time out and carefully discern my thoughts.  Our enemy Satan wants us to limit our thoughts on God’s ability to work in our lives, to believe that not all things are possible with God, or in Peter’s case telling Jesus that He shouldn’t be doing certain things like predicting His death.

I’ve let to many things & people who lacked that trust in Christ influence my own thoughts.  I refuse to let my thoughts be isolated in the walls of a church building.  As God’s ambassadors and disciples, we’re suppose to let Him lead us… where He wants us, to reach whoever He wants us to reach, to serve where ever He wants us to serve.

This post to me feels like whirlwind, I’m not sure I can express all the things I want to say or feel.  It’s been a long hard road, but with obedience to following the Holy Spirit out of faith and not by my own understanding, there is a time, like all the other times, where I’ll be able to look back and say… ahhhhh…. so that’s what He was doing and why!.

Life is to short to be afraid and live in fear, God is in Control, always has been and always will be!  It’s hard to see it in times like this one that I’m in, so many mixed emotions and confusions and the whole waiting part…. times I feel like it’s unfair… But I cannot deny I’ve got where I am today with the Lord’s help….

(The Lord works in mysterious ways…. yep! – Blues Brothers)