Today was another great day. Great, great, great day! I was reviewing the lesson for small group earlier today and I came across some great quotes/verses (at the bottom). They are about patience. I totally had a God moment. We are going over the book Proverbs which is all about wisdom. In this week's lesson we talked about how society views older people as lazy and "not with it." However, in Proverbs 16:31 it specifically says that being old is a reward. Also, people that are older are wiser because of their life experiences. The next verse went on and talked about patience. "Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city" Proverbs 16:32. I realized that I have a problem with patience, and our society has a problem with patience. We expect to get things quickly, like fast food, fast Internet, etc. As for myself, I want to know all the answers. I want to know where things are going to lead... and that is normal, yet it isn't fully trusting God. Plus, it takes the element of surprise out of not knowing, and what fun is that? I love surprises! I'm going to be praying for God to teach me patience. I could sure use it!
The next part of my day was also extremely amazing. The CPR was tonight, and I love those things! We learned how to sign to the song "How Great Thou Art" which is by far one of my favorite songs. It gives me the chills. Sometimes I get chills on my head which is weird but sweet! Pretty much everyone was signing to the song and it was soooooo moving. I love it. The Invisible Children reps were at the CPR. One of the reps came up and told a story about how they were selling t-shirts after one of the showings of the film. A little boy came up and had $10 and wanted to buy a t-shirt that was for $15, but he settled for the $10 shirt. The lady behind him ended up buying the shirt that he wanted because, she said, the little boy was living in the homeless shelter. I don't know how well I told that story, but it touched my heart. Normally I would just soak in the story a little bit and then move on, but this time I was so moved. I want to have a heart like that little boy's... giving when you have little to give to make a difference. Seeing a clip from the Invisible Children made me feel like I NEED to be on some sort of mission work. Lately I've been hearing a lot of things about how we are so lucky to be living where we are living and having all of these resources where we could easily make a difference. I think that God is putting missions on my heart and I feel like I am meant to go into some type of missionary work... whatever that may be. Tonight I wanted to go to Uganda. I don't know where God is going to send me, and when he is going to send me, but I can't wait to find out (...patience...). One thing is for sure, I'm definitely going to apply to be on the Local Missions team for Campus Ministry :)
"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21
"A greater [victory] is won by patience, because a person overcomes himself and subjects himself to himself, when patience brings him low in bearing with others in humility." Ancient Christian Commentary
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