Silly Me!

I have to admit…there are times and days when I find myself questioning God, and I find myself wondering why he doesn’t make himself more obvious…and there are also times when I find myself delighting in God’s subtle voice. Sometimes the most powerful messages are not shouted. Sometimes they are whispered and sometimes they are texted!

Tonight I was walking back to my dorm from dinner, and I found myself wondering, for the thousandth time, about my future. I am a person who likes to constantly be working towards some goal or another, and it can be so irritating to have nothing that I can do about so many aspects of my future. I can do nothing to guarantee that I will ever get married, find the kind of job that I can hope for, or even figure out what God is trying to do with my life…I was thinking all of these things when I felt my cell phone go off in my pocket with a text message reading…

“Love is Patient

Love is Kind

It does not envy

It does not boast”

The “Love is Patient” part is what made me stop in my tracks. I do not show love to God, or to the people who will be in my future when I so impatiently attempt to wait…in fact, I cease to show love to the people in the present when I spend all of my time wondering about my life in the future…silly me!

Love is Patient…

it rejoices in the joy that is right in front of it rather than seeking its replacement.

What?

“Wait what is an Ebenezer?” I remember whispering to my roommate during chapel last semester when the words to “Come Thou Fount” were displayed on the screens at the front of the room. Her response was “’Scrooge’, from a ‘Christmas Carol’, right?” Somehow, I didn’t think that was it…Actually!
The word “Ebenezer” is found a few times in the Bible, the most memorable being from One Samuel Chapter Seven. In this chapter, Israel has finally beaten the Philistines for the first time in a long time. To commemorate this Samuel, the prophet, sets up a rock calls it an Ebenezer saying "Thus far has the LORD helped us." The rock was intended to remind the Israelites that God had been with them…he had not abandoned them.

The rock was set up so that, when life became impossible again…when it looked like the Philistines would win forever, the Israelites would have a reminder that God would shine through again! That is the goal for this blog! I want it to be a testament to God’s faithfulness…I want it to remind me, along with anyone else who might read it, of God’s radical faithfulness. On the days when I have coffee on every shirt that I own, can’t seem to get anything right and feel that the world is coming to an end...I want this to be my Ebenezer…I want it to be a place where I can look back and remember that God will always shine through...even if it takes Him a little while!