let the poor man jump!

hey hey :)

well, i have a had a whirlwind of a week! i don't know about you, but the combination of the initial excitement of holidays and christmas combine to create the craziest time of year, and i find my mind constantly blown at the amount of time i spend being busy when i have absolutely nothing that i actually have to do. just before christmas, i had been spending so much time with my friends, the same group every time, and i learnt very quickly that time virtually evaporates without you noticing when you have an amazing bunch of people and some good coffee.

this is all fine and dandy, living a comfortable life where the only people you see are the same you saw yesterday and the same you'll be seeing tomorrow, but it's not very... dare i say... godly. eek. whilst reading the scriptures, i was shown how jesus lived. he had his base support group, his disciples, but far out did he meet some new people, (and not all of them were people i'm sure he'd like to be hanging around). this challenged me. it wasn't at all that i was sick of my friends. in fact, it was quite the opposite. i told them i couldn't hang out with them for a few days and did something different.
in one week i got back into contact with five people that i don't see very often, two i hadn't seen in four years, and decided that i was going to dedicate some serious quality time with them. one ended up coming to youth group, loving it, and deciding to come every week from now on. one decided, completely out of the blue, to come on church camp. one, i soon discovered, was going to europe to pursue her dreams of being a ballerina and i was going to be the last friend she'd see before she took off for good. i have been used so powerfully over these last few days, not because of my strength or power or courage or anything, but because i simply did what i saw my father doing. when i am standing there as a vessel for god and asking him to use me for his glory, he does! i have had a really rewarding week.
i have no doubt that god is a bit like a professional diver, standing on the end of a diving board above a deep, blue pool. he desperately wants to jump. we wants to show off what he can do and make the crowd gasp, but then there's us, swimming in the water right where he wants to jump. he can't jump if we're blocking him. we have to swim to the edge if we want to let god do his thing. so where are you swimming? is there room for god to jump or are you blocking him off? hmm...

*prayer for the week* - that god will open your eyes to what he is doing around you and that he might use you at grow his kingdom.

i hope this week treats you well and you experience much growth and spiritual maturing.
god bless :)
oliveanddaisyxxx