Deep Thoughts For Today...

Yesterday our church lost a leader who was murdered overseas. If you read the news, then you probably heard about it. Before going overseas, he was one of our pastors that preached a lot. I was around him, wouldn't say I knew him on a personal level, but saw him and his wife around church and heard him preach. I remember their story of deciding to move.

Anyways, after finding out about the tragic news yesterday, my first thoughts were oh my gosh, I can't believe this. WHY? His poor wife and son and what they must be going through. Why were they in such a hostile country right now? Why God?

But immediately after that my thoughts turned to more like he's in a better place. He's with God right now. And I just started thinking about that. He was following God's calling on his life. God called him to GO and he WENT. I just imagined him going into heaven and God saying, "Well done, my good and faithful servant."

Which then made me reflect. Will God say that to me if something happened to me today? Obviously right now in my life, I don't feel like God is calling me to GO somewhere. But what is God calling me to do RIGHT NOW HERE?? It is really challenging me to seek out what God is calling me to do in my life that maybe I'm not doing right now. I pray that you ask yourself that question today too. I'm praying that God will reveal to me things He wants me doing right now in my life. What can I be doing to spread God's WORD? What can I be doing to spread God's LOVE?

Yesterday I was searching on twitter about the news and came across some hashtags that some of his students overseas were posting about him. What a difference he had made in their lives? Great memories of him and it made me smile that he really made an impact over there, following God's lead and spreading love.