About a week ago I had an afternoon where I was really stressed. To be honest, I think I am carrying a lot of the burden of CONVERGE. That's just not healthy. I now striving to walk by faith and trust God with this ministry. I feel like lately my insecurities have been attacked. I continue to pray and refer back to the truth of the situation and realize that the negative things that I was feeling just weren't true. The stress was really affecting me emotionally. Most of the time I am really happy, so people can tell very quickly if something is bothering me.
There's a guy I know who I have been friends with since the third grade. He seemed to have great timing that day. I had stayed at church a couple of hours longer than what I intended to. I did this because I was trying to carry the burden instead of just completely trusting God. At that time this friend, my best friend called me. We went out to eat, which is really therapeutic for me. He drove me to the restaurant. Before we got out of the car he did two really great things. He prayed for me, which was much needed and very meaningful. Then he made me commit to not talking about anything church work related the whole time I was there. I had a great time talking about sports and life and just relaxing. It was exactly what I needed. Proverbs 17:17 says, "a friend loves at all times, a brother is born for adversity." This friend is the closest thing that I have to a brother. I am fortunate enough that I have several friends like this, and this is the kind of friend that I want to always be.
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