Today has been all about reaffirmation! I woke up this morning and my body was exhausted. I actually woke up at 9:30 (when class starts) and I was immediately awake and thinking of God from the time I woke up. Although I was ten minutes late for class I didn't get frustrated. I have noticed lately that I am constantly dwelling on God and how He is moving not only in my life, but the lives of others as well. After class I went and met with my pastor Andy Hurst from 11-12:30. Mr. Andy and I have been meeting just about every other week for the past two years. He has been a huge mentor in my life and God has definitely worked through Him and showed me a lot of things in my life. Mr. Andy is a wonderful man of Christ and I am so glad God has blessed me with him in my life. Mr. Andy and I talked about many things from my devotional that I wrote for Trinity, to my relationship that I am now in, to my Wesley guys small group that I am co-leading every Wednesday. In everything we talked about I was reaffirmed by God through Mr. Andy. Normally when Andy and I talk, there is something specific that I want to talk about, but today we just sat and talked about God! We discussed my mission trip, and my fast and I was reaffirmed in both of those, that God is glorified and no matter what happens with our mission trip God will move!
Afterwards I headed to work, and I brought my Bible to prepare for my guys small group that we have every Wednesday. We were talking about purity this week so I looked up verses on purity. The first verse I looked up was 1 Corinthians 6:12-20! It talked about sexual immorality, and this definitely brought up thoughts of my relationship this past summer (Read my 40 Days of Change Devotional). When I read this verse I immediately started to dwell on the negative, and how unclean I was. I began to look up other verses: Ephesians 5:1-10, Colossians 3:1-10, Isaiah 52:11, 2 Corinthians 6:3-6, and 1 Timothy 4:12. In all of these verses God reaffirmed that I was forgiven, that I was a wonderful Son, that I had died to myself, and that He had restored my purity. I went to small group and even as we discussed these things God continued to reaffirm me. He showed me that this Wesley community is where I am called to be! I am called to truly and intimately get to know my brothers and sisters in Christ! This is knowing their faults, fears, failures, joys, ect... and I am doing that! God is moving through others, and definitely moving through me!
I will leave you with a quote of a dear friend of mine: "God is always there for reaffirmation! All we have to do is ask Him to show up, to work, to reveal, and He is there! We are undeservingly blessed!"
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