Coffee

Coffee. I made a whole lot this weekend. I got to spend a lot of time with a really cool girl, hang out with a bunch of really cool people, and make a lot of coffee. Saturday morning I realized that all week God had been showing me the importance of patience. I had been praying about something, and I got impatient. Instead of waiting for a yes or no from God I assumed the answer would be no and decided to get annoyed, which caused me to sin. Immediately following this I discovered that the answer was in fact yes, and this opened my eyes to the importance of patience. I saw that throughout the week all the things I had gone through with kids at camp, the times I had almost flown off the handle but kept my cool, had been intended to show me how important patience was. Yet, when I asked God to reveal His will to me on a particular aspect of my life, when I should have had the patience to wait on His answer and His perfect timing, I was impatient. It showed me something. What I think is the right time usually isn't. His ways and thoughts are so much higher than my ways and thoughts. His perfect plan includes perfect timing while my flawed plan by nature is on a flawed schedule. I will be patient. I will wait for the fulfillment of His will in His PERFECT timing. And I will continue to serve Him while seeking His will and His glory every day.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you for your forgiveness, and thank you for having a plan for not only my life, but the lives of everyone. Thank you for using me to minister to your children and to show your love, mercy, and grace to those who desperately need it, both within the Body and without. I pray that you will help me to continue to do so, and that I will do so more and more effectively.Thank you for opening my eyes to my own impatience, and for showing me that if I will simply wait on your answer and your guidance you will lead me where I should go. Thank you for the salvation so freely offered to all who believe. Thank you for the love, mercy, and grace that you have shown to me so abundantly. And thank you for the people you have surrounded me with, both the believers and nonbelievers. Thank you for the encouragers and for those whom I can encourage. Give me the boldness and courage to do so, to share your love, and show me what to say and do. Act through me, make me but a vessel to pour out your love on others. You are amazing. Thank you. In your beautiful and holy name, so be it.