for such a time as this

i know i am here for such a time as this and so are you...

i remember wondering when i was younger why God put me here in the USA instead of someone where else, or why God made me a woman when men seem to be able to travel so freely and go to any country and share His love. i know He had a plan and i am here for this time for a purpose that only i can full fill. 

... to sing HIS praises

... to exhort my husband toward HIM

... to teach my children about HIM

...to show and share the world HIS massive love 

we only have a breath and then our life is over... our names will soon be forgotten by this world and our bodies disappearing in the dirt .... the only thing that will count is what we did for eternity... how we lived in the truth that this world IS NOT OUR HOME

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

Hebrews 13:14

.... our home is with the Maker of the Universe, the great and loving GOD. 

Everywhere we look we are seeing more and more people get this.... that we only have one life to live... and there is only one place we can find the direction on how to best live our short little life and that book, the BIBLE, and that following HIM is what it is about...

and that following HIM will look crazy --- HE might say build an ark for years, or go make demands to a king (Pharaoh), or go lead an army (Gideon), or maybe go preach the gospel and make disciples and show MY love and share MY love... oh wait a minute... HE did tell us to do that..... and HE also said don't worry about what you will eat, or what you will drink, or what you will wear, or where you will lay your head.... TRUST ME... YOUR CREATOR... FOLLOW ME. 

So since i know what HE says... i can't be complacent,  apathetic, distracted, content, or comfortable  there in that place of wasteful life... HE will not be found... only when i seek HIM and HIS ways with my whole mind, heart, strength, and go where HE is working will i find HIM. 

HE is feeding the hungry, healing the broken hearted, in the hard places, in the war torn countries  down the street, in an alley way with a homeless teen, teaching my Elijah, Jeriah, and Perpetua....

if i follow HIM.... I WILL get dirty, some people will hate me, i will be uncomfortable.... but OH what JOY it is to follow HIM to leave the worthless emptiness of silly things and follow HIM to pray over a women in India, to kiss the forehead of abused girl in Roanoke, to write a biblestudy for my kids, to stay up all night and talk with my maker and plead for the lives of so many.... THERE with HIM is where true JOY is found....

I love HIM and where HE goes I will follow.... 

wherever that may be... 

JOIN me...... lets run the race together...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. Hebrews 12:1