I'm leading our community worship time tomorrow and here's my little intro to our time together, with some extra comments for context.
We come to the end of what would knew would be a long term - 11 weeks : 2 modules and 3 weeks on missions - and what has proved to be a term of God working in big ways.
While I definitely am looking forward to seeing the bigger picture of what God is up to, I consider the sense of confusion and fear I’ve felt and the days when truly seeking God and finding rest in Him seemed too hard. The joy and thankfulness I felt were so easily forgotten when I couldn’t see the way forward. In His abundance of grace, God reminds me that he hasn’t changed! He didn’t stop being faithful when I couldn't see a way forward.
And He has spoken into those emotions. Of course I’ll have feelings, but I am being challenged to live beyond what I feel, to live in the knowledge of my sure foundation. To no longer be a slave to fear, but to live the life of a child of God, with my eyes fixed on His, trusting Him with everything I am and all that I have, no matter what’s going on around me.
The songs I’ve chosen today are ones that remind us of God’s faithfulness, of the hope and security we have because we know, love and serve Him.
The final song might not be so familiar to all of you but is a song I remember singing as a young teenager, believing with all my heart that God would use me to bring nations of people to Him. I’m just amazed, and really humbled, that He has me here. He has me training.
I’M GOING TO BE A MISSIONARY!
I know this is really obvious. But what I’ve dreamed of since I was 4 has finally come true. It’s taken me 6 months and a song from the 90s for me to realise:
I am training to be a missionary.
For those of you interested, the song is Hillsong : You Said.
