Responsibility yet Privilege

Wow...I don't really even know exactly where to begin. I can't even begin to fully describe all God has been doing here in SLO. My eyes are being opened more and more to everything Christ is and everything He involves. There's so much to say...

Let me say that being obedient to Christ shouldn't be out of a sense of "I have to do this," but rather a sense of "Lord, here I am, I obey You because it is an act of worship, I lay everything I have before you and will obey You because You are the Lord of all." God is GOOD. So good, so much better than we can ever taste or imagine or even grasp. God has called us to obey-that is our responsibility. Yet, we have the privilege of obeying, because out of that obedience, God anoints us with blessings far beyond anything we could ever dream.

God has really laid it on my heart the responsibility that the Christians here in my dorm have. We are called to unite, to pray, to fight, to minister, to love, to speak the words of truth, to be real and vulnerable with one another, and to obey Him in what he is calling us to do. We have a huge responsibility that has come as a result of God's unbelievable faithfulness in bringing us here and together, yet, it is a huge privilege. How amazing is it that He thinks us worthy, thinks us useful, thinks us capable of advancing His kingdom! What a privilege it is to serve the God we love, to give everything back to the One who gave us everything, and to walk in His amazing grace and power every moment of everyday!

Some people have been down and discouraged lately. I've been one of them. But let us open our eyes to what God has put before us! God is more faithful than we will ever comprehend and He will take us exactly where we need to be if we will submit to Him. I've struggled with trying to take things into my own hands because I wasn't being satisfied or content with what God was doing. I think that it's good we're never satisfied, for that always keeps us craving more, but as for being content, we need to be content with Christ and His plans for us. Let us push aside what's bogging us down. It's only holding us back from what God wants to do. Lay it down at His feet. Let us not be bogged down with the responsibilities we have, but rather look at them as privileges.

Let's rise up-it's time to unite and fight! It's time to live up to the responsibility and privilege God has given us.