My Path or Yours?

Another week, more knowledge and truth imparted. Golly gosh.
This week seemed to go by the fastest yet, outreach is approaching ever faster, its only 4 weeks from today till I leave for India. I still don't think that's gotten into my head yet. India man...

We had the October DTS come home for their debrief week this week and one of their teams went to India so it was good to feed off them and get as much information on it as possible. Be prepared for some pooh stories to come.. as well as stories of loving on unlovable lepers, orphans and the rejected and stories of God performing amazing healings and miracles through us. Its going to happen.

This week our school leader Sanerieve Sanerieve Fuiava junior (usually known as Live, pronounced Lee-vay)spoke. He is an amazing man, and it was exciting to hear his testimony of change from a bratty kid to the man of vision he is today. It was cool how he spoke about the crazy dreams and things God told him he could do and how many he accomplished. It made me excited. I have so many things I want to do, and God has told me to do, and they are scary, exciting and most of all BIG. But if God asks you to do them, how can I say no? I'm still not certain exactly what God wants me to do, to come back here and staff, or to go into full time missions work in Saudi Arabia, or become a sailboat captain?(two of those are valid options) But no matter what, the main thing is that I follow him. He has the most exciting life possible in store for everyone, but he asks that we follow him, with our heart, soul and strength.
One other thing that impacted me was that God wants to build our character before we can step into things. Moses spent 40 years in Canaan building character before God released him to free the Jews. Evem Jesus spent 20 or so years “growing in wisdom and stature” before his ministry. God will not put us anywhere we can't handle, so he will put us in situations where we are forced to grow into the men and women we should be, and are meant to be. And that's exciting because it means the problems we go through today mean we will be more amazing tomorrow, because to quote a cliché that I've heard so often but am only beginning to realise the truth in, “Life is about the journey, not the destination”