Hope

Well the first official week of my second year of college is coming to it's end and man has a lot of events already occurred. The days has seemed to just drag on and, I personally feel exhausted from it all.

It really all started with the house that I moved into. I was going to be living with 5 other guys from my Christian Fellowship group on campus (called Intervarsity) and my brother. My brother and me moved in a week before school was suppose to kick off and found out that all the utilities were turned off. We got them on and running again after about three days. Then some of the roommates started to move in slowly as Intervarsity had a couple of events to gather some of the incoming freshmen. Everything was going fine then the city started to give the house troubles. Supposedly, in the city where I am at, you are only allowed to have 4 people live in a house, unless the people are family, and we had 7 people living in this house. At first we really didn't think anything of it until a 200 dollar fine was given to us for having more than 4 people living in the house. They told us we if had more than 4 people in the house next time they came by then the fine would jump up to 1000 dollars. Thus I am one of the 3 members of the house that has to move out and find another place to live.

The next major event that happened involved the children's ministry that I am leading. One parent is leaving the ministry and taking her kids with her. Now that doesn't really sound like it is a bad event, but the issue come in that this one person brought most of the parents who had children. In turn, the child count went from around 10-13 per week to 1 girl. As I said before, it is really not that bad, but it just is a big hit to my spirit. I had plans to teach these 10-13 kids, and not to say I can't teach this 1 girl with the same lesson plan, but it is just different.

Yet, with these events, and some other personal events, there is still hope. Yes, I might have 1 girl in my children's ministry right now, but God could really touch her spirit and lead her to understanding. And yes, I am going to have to move out of the house I thought I was going to be living in right now to an apartment, but God can still move in helping me find an apartment to live in. And, God maybe wanted me to move so that He could do amazing things in that complex. I don't know why all of this is really happening all at once, but I do have hope that God will make everything right.

This hope is something that we all need to take a hold of. We can't let the situations that we are going through to stop us. So what if I have 1 child in the ministry and that I have to move, God will do great works wherever I am and with that 1 child.

Have hope, because God has your back. Have hope, because God is not going to drop you after picking you up. Have hope, because God just loves you.

So I ask you to have hope with me. Stick through the tough times. End the end, God will be glorified and will bless you.

- KeymasterPL

Excuses

It's funny when people want to do something and yet just put it off because of "random circumstances". Such as:

There is not enough time in the day for that to happen

There is just way to much going on 

If that happens that I will have to be working by myself

I don't think that things will go well

It just doesn't seem like things will be able to start

We can do other things during this time then actually start this at this time

I don't want to do this

Now really think about it for a second. What does all of those things sounds like to you? Reasons why the something can't happen at a certain time or excuses. I lean on the side of excuses, especially when the thing that you are suppose to do is from God Himself.


But think about it, would God give you a huge pull for something and then give you all these excuses. Now, yes God does work in His own time and could tell you that this event needs to happen later. But if God would be telling you this, it wouldn't be in the form of excuses.

If God tells you to do something, or give you a big pull, or if God gives you a heart to do something then you should go for it. Don't make excuses about why you can't do it or why there is no way that it can happen. Those things will just stop the blessing God has for you, and the people that would be touched by that ministry God has for you. Jump on to the train God has set for you and don't wait for the next train or wait to make a connection somewhere else. Follow the right train that is set before you, and ride the ride that God wants to ride.

-KeymasterPL