Lately, my beautiful wife and I have been trying to figure out where God is taking us. I like James 4:13-17 about future plans:
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do land doesn’t do it, it is sin for them (NIV)
It's not so much that making plans is wrong, it's that if it's our Lover's desire that we go there with his gorgeous Spirit, then it's okay to make those plans. With graduation only months away, new opportunities abound. We both miss community. Rich, lovely community with friends that we can call brothers and sisters. And not just that whole "Brother Bill" or "Sister Jane" from the churchhouse, but friends that truly are closer than a brother or sister. I've had friendships like those, and lost them. We miss that. We miss doing things spiritually throughout our day that influences other believers and non-believers. It's all a yearning for the second great commandment.
The only problem is knowing how God will bring our lives about in the future. The future is oh so foggy. Our very close friends have a ministry in Alabama. We can't help but daydream what life would be like if we did move. What community would be possible. What friendships could begin. What changes could be made for people who do not know our beautiful Love Jesus Christ.
The biggest challenge in meteorology is knowing the future (what is the weather going to be like tomorrow?). God created the atmosphere such that there are 5 main equations which can describe how the atmosphere is at any such time. The only problem is that the equations are so complex that we cannot solve them! God really locked down the future air-tight! (The equations are called non-linear partial differential equations-PDEs- and we don't have any mathematical methods to solve them yet. In fact, if anyone where to make a proof to "solve" one of the problems, the Navier-Stokes problem, they would get $1 million dollars from the Millennium Foundation! In reality, we probably won't be able to solve this equation till probably past the End Times!)
We are still thinking/daydreaming/even looking for jobs in Alabama now for next year. If it's our Beloved's will, we will go! Of course, the weather down there is so hot. And I'm a huge fan of summer, but winter is my fav. So we'll have to take plenty of family trips up to some cabin or place in the Blue Ridge Mountains so I can still see snow :)
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