A new adventure

Walking with Jesus

At the very beginning, before I even got started, I saw him on the front of a ship high above me. Jesus said "Come on, let's get going." I said where?" He said "On an adventure." He was very happy, in an obvious playful mood. This was in contrast to my "depressed outlook" - I had a week where I had to fight every step of the way, a week of frustration and pain. One of those weeks where the "stuffing was kicked out of me, where I was ready to give up."

He moved fast, I had difficulty keeping up at first. But as I walked with Him joy and hope started growing within me. I felt His presence with me, in me and beside me. He looked excited, ready for adventure.

However the question on my mind was "Where am I going? Where is this adventure taking me in life?" "Jesus replied "If I told you, it would not be an adventure. Don't question, just come. Keep up with me!" After I heard this I saw a red finch on grass stalks in my garden. I was reminded that the Father looks after these birds and He is looking after me.....
Bob Lipsys
Australia

Do you understand the new life God has given you?

Is God’s Spirit stirring within you? Do you feel like you are on the edge of something wonderful. Can you sense that God about to do something amazing in your life? The time is soon. Bob Lipsys
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(From The Message Bible)

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Dad?"

God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!

That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Romans 8:15-28 (The Message Bible)

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Is God’s Spirit stirring within you? Do you feel like you are on the edge of something wonderful. Can you sense that God about to do something amazing in your life? The time is soon.