These days I have been looking at the things that I have been doing. The young men I have been talking to on a weekly basis. I see how just how important these times are. Yesterday for example, I spent time with Jorge doing a study. Like many times before, the study is only the starting point to conversations about what is really going on and how God is dealing with him in his spiritual life. Sometimes I wonder just how God is working, and then Jorge shares with me, about how God is showing him how he needs to get his life organize in the sense of being prepared for the things that God is calling him. It is the details of his heart are important in the process of what God is doing in him. It is the refining of gold, that Peter talks about in his letter. It says: 1 Peter 1:6-9
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
This is different for everyone. I am honored to testify that this is what is happening in our church with the young people. The Lord is desiring to change us on the inside. He is looking for intimacy. How God works in each one differently. Like I titled this post, it is the small things that matter. When Jesus comes into our lives, there is a constant work of holiness in our lives. We will never be finished with the process. It is a constant moving process. When you think that you are done with one area, God starts working on another area. He is conforming into the image of His Son. Does not our lives reflect him more and more the longer we walk with Him?
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
This is different for everyone. I am honored to testify that this is what is happening in our church with the young people. The Lord is desiring to change us on the inside. He is looking for intimacy. How God works in each one differently. Like I titled this post, it is the small things that matter. When Jesus comes into our lives, there is a constant work of holiness in our lives. We will never be finished with the process. It is a constant moving process. When you think that you are done with one area, God starts working on another area. He is conforming into the image of His Son. Does not our lives reflect him more and more the longer we walk with Him?
