Let us spur one another.

17Sep08

It’s obvious that I did not blog as much as I intended to this summer when working at North Point Community…but I still plan on elaborating on my experience there and how God pushed, stretched, and expanded my faith through the 2 1/2 months that I was integrated into NP ministries. Regardless, a lot has been happening in my life since I ended my dream job and walked back into the classrooms here at KSU.

There are many things that I love about KSU, but the number one has to be the diversity found in each class. I am now into my major classes, and loving every minute of it! But what I constantly find is me, being surrounded by non-believers or people that just “are not like me.” I love that. It makes me think more about the opportunity of influence that I can withhold here…that is if I allow myself to. It’s easy to hang out with Christians, and it is easy to find myself in a “click” of Christians even here at a big, diverse university. I pray that God will encourage every one us to step out in faith and show everyone that genuine love that everyone is looking for. And who knows what will happen in return. I love it!

I have been stuck on a verse for a while found in Hebrews 10. Starting in verse 24, it says to, “Let us consider how we may SPUR one another toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another,–and all the more as your see the Day approaching.” Wow! I love how we can take this and run with it, whether this means fellowship among believers or simple evangelism.

This past Sunday, I joined a small group through GroupLink and my hope and prayer for this group is that we can constantly be encouraging one another…for us to place aside any unnecessary drama and get real with who we are and who we want to be. I love the ladies in this group, and have already had such a great time being around them. I am excited to see where Christ takes us in our journey through college and our young twenties!

Besides all of that, I have been more than blessed with people to encourage me. I can’t even begin to explain how much my best friend, Mary Catherine has been my support and my backbone this past year. Ups and downs, cries and laughs, she has been there through it all. Her heart is so full of Christ, and it’s easy to see where her priorities are. And Chris, he has my heart. I am completely smitten with who he is in Christ and how he genuinely would do anything that it takes to expand His kingdom. Whatever it takes, he is there.

So, I am now working with New Life Church in the mornings, helping with the children’s “behind-the-scene” logistics as well as starting to tackle the middle school ministry with Chris here in 2 weeks. This should be an interesting ride as finances and motivation within the church continue to be a struggle. But I am fully awake in the fact that Christ has brought us here and will bring us through it as long as these new directions are fully yielded to Him. Middle schoolers? Ah! My heart’s passion is for children, but I know that I need to expand my ministry where I am uncomfortable. I want to be uncomfortable, never comfortable in my ministry enough to not be alert with God’s faithfulness and counsel.

So, that’s just a teeny, tiny update in where my heart is right now…just a month into my 2nd year in college.

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