Timeless

This morning I realized how precious time is. This past week was amazing! My dad had successful knee replacement surgery, my mom watched him and supported him through it. I had a great phone call conversation with my brother. I spent the weekend at a retreat getting to know, worshipping with, and making s'mores along side of 30 new friends at our downtown campus launch weekend. It was also amazing to see families coming to church in droves on Mother's Day! Mac and Julie Richard did a phenomenal job of teaching on the beauty of a woman, the beauty God stamped in the soul and on the heart of every woman! My weekend ended with a great time with high school students. Watching students worship God with everything they are is inspiring. It was a truly great week last week!

What I have become increasingly thankful for is the time that I have been given, to love God and His people! To invest my time, energy, money, words, and talents with people, with friend new and old! I found myself asking God, "Is this the peace that passes all understanding? Is giving Jesus my all, giving Him myself to invest in others a gift? Is it possible God that your desire for our lives is to live freely...freely giving away what we have of ourselves to others and what we have for others!"

I pray this morning not for wisdom (which is great and important), not for discernment (which is also important), but for a peace to give my life away to be used by Jesus to reconcile the world back to Himself! If people are not seeing Jesus in me; than God You must increase and I must decrease! This is my prayer, that I might know Him and that I would be known by Him, so that all others...ALL OTHERS...EVERYONE...would KNOW who He is. I once heard a story asking a Speaker what his left hook would be. A left hook being the big knock out punch that would make the crowd erupt with joy and a sense of WOW! I want my left hook to be Jesus in me! Nothing more or less!