Chase is back in town. I got a chance to talk to him today about some of the things he learned during his five weeks in Malaysia. He provided insite into some of the circumstances of my life and was able to give me advice. Our conversation is best summarized as a large, 200 foot wide billboard with a huge arrow pointing toward the word “GOD.”
The element of “waiting” is hard to grasp sometimes, but to some small extent I can see God reforming my concept of it through the way things occur in my life. “God, here’s something I really, _really,_ want right now. Hook me up, dude.” His response, “I’ve got something better for you. A reality better than anything you can imagine with your finite understanding of what I’ve prepared. I love you and won’t allow you to do this now for your own sake.”
Romans 5:3-5 – “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
sweet:)