Yes, it really has been a year and a half since we have posted on this blog. It has been a very busy time in our lives, with lots of changes. Austin is about to finish his junior year at North Greenville University, Heather is soon to graduate from high school, and we are in the process of starting a new phase of work and ministry.
Yes, life is full of changes. Most of us (self included) don't really like change. We resist it at every turn. The older we get, the more stationary we tend to become. But the fact is that, while we serve a God who never changes, He is always calling us to move on. To be dynamic. To follow His lead, wherever He might take us. How sad would it have been if the Apostle Paul had stopped at planting one church. Had only mentored one pastor. Had only taken one missionary journey. Had decided to rest in the successes (or despair over the failures) of the past.
Listen to his heart, as he writes to the Philippian church...
"But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet
indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all
things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him...
Not
that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on,
that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of
me.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
Forgetting those things which are behind - let's press on.
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