Comments on: Asking God geography questions.

By: The Imaginary

The Imaginary — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:12:31 +0000

I never comment on these new-fangled, blog post thingys, but this was so timely, so necessary, I thought it warranted my kudos!

I just spent the last 2 hrs on craiglist searching for a place to live, and then an additional 30mins to an hour looking for a new job on idealist.org, (this was just after I created a Linkedin profile and scoured my former college's employment page!)

I even resorted to the facebook status update (DREADFUL, I know.) And after all that, exhausted from the frustration of finding nothing, regretting how I should have applied THERE last month, and moved THIS month...yadda yadda yadda...I find this GEM of a post on SCL. So thanks.

In fact, I think I will sign-off now and spend some time in the only "Place" that makes right now.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:11:31 +0000

How do you do it? How do you know exactly what to write at the time I need to read it?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:04:02 +0000

ACK! tears, literally. I have been wrestling with the "why is it you can witness to someone in Vanuatu but not your next door neighbour? " question- I feel the 'call' to mission- and yet my neighbour has yet to hear mention of His Name??? I've felt heavily needing to witness to my neighbour (canadian spelling, sorry) and after reading this, no joke, I walked over there, and after MONTHS - a year? - of procrastination, fear, and internal struggle, DID IT. JUST NOW. First time.
Thank You, God, and BLESS JON!!!!
And Lord, water that seed, and someday may someone harvest it!!!!

p.s. great post. It may invite dispute as Paul's law-giving-rise-to-sin comment, but it's true! Do we continue in sin so that grace may abound? Do we stay in our house and never preach the Gospel if we are in God's presence? May it never be!
If we are in his presence, it will aburn in our bones until we get the Word out! ANd I'm pretty sure His presence is all over the world anyway. so wherever you go, stay in it!
Aww good J-Dawg.

By: Eli

Eli — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:02:16 +0000

Yep...in His presence is the only place to be.

When I read this I realized how often I take for granted that I get to be the guy that survives a bus sinking in a river delivering vaccines and maybe a little gospel to a jungle tribe (true story). I don't often enough thank God for the fact that my life is more like a movie than that of most of my friends. It has cost me relationships with people, but strengthened my relationship with Jesus.

You can't trade that.

Word of advice though if you think that you want to go...set your default to "GO." Do the most radical thing you can think that God might have you do and pray for a no, rather than waiting around for Him to send you somewhere wild. Life won't be boring.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:57:58 +0000

I love my
fiestaware! It is heavy, though

By: JasonSix

JasonSix — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:59:44 +0000

I've noticed a distinct pattern among us singles being "called" to the mission field.
All the women feel called to the "spiritually dark" places of Europe which also happen to make for great romantic vacation spots, or to wherever there are lots of cute starving babies, like Ethiopia.

Meanwhile us guys want to be Rik-Rok star missionaries caught up in Indiana Jones type adventures in jungle locations, fighting off slave traders and wild beasts, wondering if a cape and mask is proper jungle apparel.

Then they get married, babies come along, they notice neighbors in peril in their suburban jungle and bam! they're in the middle of a ministry.

By: Viece

Viece — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:17:58 +0000

I have been asking this very question lately. The overwhelming feeling that i should be somewhere else was becoming, well, overwhelming. I should try harder to be in His presence. I should focus on the now. Not the where i want to be. Which, ironically should always be in His presence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:14:14 +0000

Katie Oliver – Wikipedia says Fiestaware is a line of dinnerware glazed in differing solid colors manufactured and marketed by the Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, West Virginia, since 1936 — with a hiatus from 1973 to 1985. I say it's dinnerware made out of lead, with each piece being at least an inch thick, glazed in colors you'd see in a mexican restaurant. Pictures on Ebay.

By: Indy

Indy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:28:37 +0000

I kind of new that was the answer before I read it but it took reading this for me to realize that I've got to stop trying to walk three steps ahead of God and just walk by His side.

Thank you

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:45:06 +0000

For a couple of years, my husband worked near the second cousin of the sniffler: the constant extremely loud throat clearer. Huh-huh-HUH! Huh-huh-HUH! And he never took a hint, either. What's with these noisemakers?

Melissa in Raleigh