Last night, in the middle of the night, I was thinking about dreams. Not the kind you have when you’re asleep, but the kind that drive your life. Ambitions. Passions.
I was thinking about how, just like possessions, we need to hold our dreams loosely – even the ones we have of serving God. As with anything, even serving God can become an idol. We can devote all of our time to serving and forget about the relationship.
Peter and I desperately want to go and serve God in Japan. It’s been a long time since God first put that call on my heart, but along the way I’ve had to learn that serving God is not about a place. I will serve Him wherever I go. The call He’s placed on my life isn’t mine – it’s His. My job is to follow Him.
It’s kind of like holding sand – the tighter we hold, the more we lose. Only when we relax in the knowledge that God is in control and will use us for His purposes, however He sees fit, will we truly experience the abundance that He has in store for us.
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