Turning points in our lives can cause us to revert and focus on weaknesses or they can catapult us into new possibilities. There are many places we can land in between those points, but I am praying that the turning points in my life will catapult me straight into the middle of God's plan and purposes for my life.
Several events lately have caused me to pause and to begin reevaluating my own relationship with the Lord and how to use my gifts. For that matter, I am even having more discussions with God about what gifts and talents He gave me versus the ones I want or the ones I think I have and don't. That will be another post perhaps.
Anyway, if I look at things through my own limited understanding, I will find myself . . . limited. If, however, I sit up and take note of how I see God working in miraculous ways, I find that the limits are the fences and walls I have built in my own thinking.
A couple months ago, I wrote about sponsoring a child through Compassion. Within just a few short days after that, God saw fit for me to meet a man from Rwanda personally. The man walked straight into my office at work. I love the way God does things.
Here's the beautiful part of what I learned about this man. I don't know exactly how he became a believer in Jesus Christ, but he did. He read his bible. And he took God's instructions personally. The bible told him he was to go and reach and teach the world for Jesus Christ. He thought to himself that he would be unable to teach the world about Jesus because he did not know English and so many others did. So he taught himself English.
He also went from teaching a handful of people in an untraditional style of church to leading a church of over a thousand. I forget the exact figure but it was as a lot! No marketing. No advertising. No formal education in the Word. Just preaching and teaching. Right there in the middle of Rwanda.
He is here because his country now has certain requirements that he must meet. I have no doubt that he will do that in record time so that he can get back to preaching the Word and leading people to Jesus.
What would happen in our lives if we began to take God's words of promise and instruction a little more literally? God said it and so I must do it. God promised it and so I must expect it. God forbade it and so I can't do it.
Our potential and power is unlimited when we remember where both come from. May the turning points in my life cause me to tear down the walls of limitation with the truth of God's word and to wait with expectation for the unleashing of his power and provision in my life to do what he called me and created me to do.
I pray there is also a part 2 to this story. I couldn't help but wonder about the timing of meeting this man. So I very boldly printed off what little information I had about the child we were sponsoring and asked the man how close he lived to the boy's village. Turns out he lives only a couple hours away from there. Perhaps someday God will use this man to show my husband and I to the village where Mucyo lives. You just never know.
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