"A watched pot never boils."
As a teen, many of us spend our time looking for a relationship. If we aren't in a relationship, we search and search until we find "the one". However, a month later, we pick up the pieces of our broken heart and start searching again. Meghan and I both did that. We looked for relationships where we could find them, and we always ended up not doing what God wanted us to do. However, when we both stopped looking for a relationship and started looking for a relationship with God, BOOM!, He placed us in each other's lives. He knew all along what He was going to do, and it wasn't until we started looking for Him that He considered us ready for each other.
We felt God's calling on Arizona and the TO Nation, but circumstances changed and that door has closed at this time. So here we stand; watching the pot. Waiting.
As of now, we are in limbo. I (Joseph) will not finish school until November 2011, which means we can't leave Louisiana just yet. Meghan will still finish school in May, and has already begun seeking a job in Louisiana for the following school year. We are also looking for a place to live in Columbia (Joseph's hometown). Buying a small place is what we prefer, but renting may end up being our only option. That's just another thing we are trying to seek God's guidance in.
We won't try to deny that we have been discouraged by all the things that have come up. We are humans with emotions, and we also still have fleshly desires. However, we see and know that God has a perfect plan for us. We also know that He is going to use us as soon as we are ready. We just need to seek His face, and He will guide us to our destination.
As always we covet your prayers. Specifically:
1. We find God's will in a housing situation
2. Joseph finds a job that intermingles with school well
3. Meghan will find a job teaching
4. God will show us where He wants us to be used
5. Wedding planning will continue nicely (we spent a whole day printing and working on invitation stuff, and never argued once!)
Until next time, which will be sooner than it was last time, we promise, God bless and stop watching the pot!
Joseph and Meghan
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Our Calling
“The will of God is for you and me to give our lives urgently and recklessly to making the gospel and the glory of God known among all peoples, particularly those who have never even heard of Jesus.” –David Platt from Radical.
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t have said it better myself. Jesus has commanded all of us to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), but somewhere along the way, we as Christians began to mold and twist that statement to fit our own needs. Move to Africa to spread the word? Sell all I have and give to the poor? No way—that’s not for me. God only calls a few people to do that sort of thing, right? Wrong! We are all commanded to spread the word and love of Christ.
Now, our callings may look a little bit different. From the time I was in the 8th grade, I felt God would call me to different places around the world to be obedient to His command. Basically, I felt called to be a full-time missionary (the word still sounds so sweet to my ears!) You can imagine the doubts that developed upon realizing the man God provided for me to marry felt a bit of a different calling! Joseph knows that God has blessed him with the opportunities to go to school and become an electrical engineer so that he can minister through his lay-position. World travelling missionary and working husband… How exactly is that supposed to work?
Over the past few months, God has been revealing this very thing to us! He has shown us where he is calling us and unveiled his plan for our seemingly different callings to fit perfectly together. We have surrendered to His perfect will for us and are excited to see God work everything out in His timing and for His glory. Join us over the next few months as we pray for wisdom and guidance to continue on this journey of being obedient to God’s command and following God’s callings on our life together!
—Meghan & Joseph
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t have said it better myself. Jesus has commanded all of us to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), but somewhere along the way, we as Christians began to mold and twist that statement to fit our own needs. Move to Africa to spread the word? Sell all I have and give to the poor? No way—that’s not for me. God only calls a few people to do that sort of thing, right? Wrong! We are all commanded to spread the word and love of Christ.
Now, our callings may look a little bit different. From the time I was in the 8th grade, I felt God would call me to different places around the world to be obedient to His command. Basically, I felt called to be a full-time missionary (the word still sounds so sweet to my ears!) You can imagine the doubts that developed upon realizing the man God provided for me to marry felt a bit of a different calling! Joseph knows that God has blessed him with the opportunities to go to school and become an electrical engineer so that he can minister through his lay-position. World travelling missionary and working husband… How exactly is that supposed to work?
Over the past few months, God has been revealing this very thing to us! He has shown us where he is calling us and unveiled his plan for our seemingly different callings to fit perfectly together. We have surrendered to His perfect will for us and are excited to see God work everything out in His timing and for His glory. Join us over the next few months as we pray for wisdom and guidance to continue on this journey of being obedient to God’s command and following God’s callings on our life together!
—Meghan & Joseph
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Adventure Begins!
It's official! After months of praying about our specific calling, we finally announced to our church, Columbia Heights Baptist, what God has called us to do: move to Arizona to work as missionaries on the Tohono O'odham reservation! Over the past several weeks, we have been praying separately about this idea of working in Arizona. We each had fears and concerns about our calling; however, the Spirit has shown itself powerful in each of our lives by revealing very similar ideas about what our calling is. This only confirmed to each of us that God really is working here, and we aren't just following our own desires. We thank God for confirming what we felt by having the other person say it out loud before we even share our own heart. We are so afraid that we may be following the desires of our own heart that it is very encouraging to hear that God is showing the same calling to both of us. We are so young, so inexperienced, so immature, and mostly so unworthy to be used by Him, but we are happy to be able to be a part of His plan! Continue to pray for us to be able to discern His will in our lives.
Every rose has it's thorn, and this one is no exception. Because this calling is to go to Arizona, it is also a calling to leave Louisiana, leave Kentucky , leave family, leave friends, leave home, and leave our comfort zones. Specifically, I am leaving behind a youth group that I have grown to love. The individual relationships that I have built as the youth director of Columbia Heights have not only shaped some of the youth, but have shaped me. Even though I will see these youth again, I will talk to them, and Facebook will be a constant way to keep in touch, there will be a change. Please pray that the six months of advanced notice that was given to Columbia Heights today will be plenty of time for the church to find a new youth director, and that the youth will be able to bond with him or her as well as they have with me.
No one could possibly answer all the questions we have right now, and we probably couldn't even voice them all; however, God works. He works mightily, He works perfectly, and He works in His time. Pray for us as we continue to seek His will in our lives.
Love in Christ,
Joseph and Meghan
Every rose has it's thorn, and this one is no exception. Because this calling is to go to Arizona, it is also a calling to leave Louisiana, leave Kentucky , leave family, leave friends, leave home, and leave our comfort zones. Specifically, I am leaving behind a youth group that I have grown to love. The individual relationships that I have built as the youth director of Columbia Heights have not only shaped some of the youth, but have shaped me. Even though I will see these youth again, I will talk to them, and Facebook will be a constant way to keep in touch, there will be a change. Please pray that the six months of advanced notice that was given to Columbia Heights today will be plenty of time for the church to find a new youth director, and that the youth will be able to bond with him or her as well as they have with me.
No one could possibly answer all the questions we have right now, and we probably couldn't even voice them all; however, God works. He works mightily, He works perfectly, and He works in His time. Pray for us as we continue to seek His will in our lives.
Love in Christ,
Joseph and Meghan
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