As you can see from the cacti, recently I was on the west coast. I had
a great time… met plenty of great new people and spent some amazing
quality time with people I already knew. My girlfriend, Kat, lives out
in Cali, so I got to see her along with one of my really good friends,
Josh Lamstein. Can’t wait to go back.
I then traveled to Bowling Green, OH for the Great Lakes East Region
InterVarsity Staff conference. Again, great time, learning tons more
about myself and how God wants me to be a radical missionary on Wayne
State’s campus, leading students into the adventure of following this
dankity dank dude, Jesus. More on that later.
This is the important thing I’d like to share: Frankly, my life is
going really well at this moment. And the scary thing is that I’m
discovering that I am not good at handling success. When God tests and
challenges me, I’m all about clinging to Him to pull through the
suffering… but when God blesses me, I’m all about worshipping myself
as if I’m the one who made it happen. Lord have mercy. And the worst
thing is I think I can just work myself out of this mindset, which
shows my further worship of my own efforts. Lord have mercy. I realize
how unable I am to worship God only and to serve others in respone to
His love, and I can only ask for your prayers during this time of
blessing. Weird, I know…
…and it’s not that I want God’s blessing to leave me. On the
contrary, I am extremely and utterly thankful for everything He’s
doing in my life. It’s just that I so easily attribute His work to
myself. And even as I type this, I realize this is all about ME. me me
me me. This whole blog is about me… what’s up with that? I don’t
know… Lord have mercy. Pray for something else too… pray for
Detroit and the Wayne State students - that they would be receptive to
what God is doing in their lives and in their community this school
year, especially as our New Student Outreach approaches during
freshman orientation. That’s all for now.
