New year...new beginnings
Second last week of training and with it one week left I can honestly say that I am not ready yet. Rewind on all the weeks of training and learn everything again. That said I don't think I will ever be ready for a privilege like this. Going out into the nations and speaking His love over them...I'm wonderstruck.
These past weeks I have learned to know and feel God in the stillness but also in the storm. I have learned that He calls me beautiful (Song of Solomon 2:10) and that He loves me with an everlasting love (Jer 31:3). I have discovered that I love Him most ardently and that I enjoy His presence.
I have learned That humility is the fruit of this love but if it's only a poor inclination of it I'm afraid one small selfish act will kill it stone dead. LOVE UNSELFISHLY!! I have learnt that this love goes beyond me and my own desires and that it is locked into acts of service as well. And that the quality of serving each other in great humilty is a wonderful leadership characteristic too.
Love others without wanting anything in return. To treat others as Holy ground and to make love our motivation for everything. For God is love is He not? Everything in life comes to us from God, so that we might experience and express His love, because you can only love when you are filled with God's love.
I learned to live in the moment And not worry about what lies before me for I know who holds tomorrow...WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD. I see colors in a different way and He makes what doesn't matter fade to grey. Life is good and that's the way it should bE (Bright - Echosmith).
And what, you may ask, have I taken from these weeks? I think, as my dear friend Mr. Tolkien would say: "Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” - J.R.R. Tolkien