Looking back and looking forward

It’s been interesting reading some of the old entries on the blog. I’ve now been in the US for almost 2 years. Things have certainly turned out a little different to what we had thought they would be like. Not neccessarily worse or better, just different.

Actually, there are some blessings that we have now that we had not anticipated which kind of make things better in some respect. Being able to buy a house for instance would be an example of this, and of course being given the opportunity to get started on a vision that, at least on my part, has been 15 years or so in the making (namely planting a church). So, in a lot of respects things are better than what we planned – God is good.

But what I was more referring to was being happy – like Paul says in Phil 4:11 that he has learnt to be content whatever the circumstances. If it had been God’s will that what we had a orginally planned had actually materialized then I’m confident I would still be happy. This is not say I don’t think there are things that could be better, for instance my work situation is a little more stressful then I would like, but although we tend to think of life as a journey we often forget what the eventual destination is and we get hung up on reaching or not reaching certain milestones and in doing so we miss out on the joy. For me, I believe my destination has already been set and is secure, not because of my own merit but because of what Christ has done. What I don’t know is the road God will take me to get to its eventual end, in the meantime I would do well to keep taking each step as my path is lit and to pay attention to the scenery as we go along.