Oh hello world. Today we went to the market in Juliaca, that was fun! We bought a ton of food, I mean a TON. We pretty much stocked up on oreos for life. I brought some sweet headphones at the radio shack here for like ten bucks. Yippeeeeskipppeeee!
So I'm trying to discern if God is speaking to me or if its just my silly ambitions so please pray. I was wondering today how silly I must look to these people here. I am always doing hand motions and speaking english, its a littler embarassing. Its also embarassing that I always mix up my spanish words. I'm kind of a mess here, actually I am.
But seriously, how do you know who God is really speaking to you? I've been praying and reading in scripture so now I'm just waiting for a response. Sometimes I wish that God would just come down from heaven and smack me in the face and tell me what's up.
I wonder if people ask for silly signs like I do. Sometimes I'll be looking out the window at night and I will ask God to send a shooting star to tell me yes. I bet God is up in heaven laughing at me. That's probably what thunder is, God laughing at the silly things we do or just the silly things that I do. Oh God!
I'm ready to hear his voice.
-Love in Christ!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
This is me...
- Alison Franklin
- Ft. Worth, Texas, United States
- Hi! I am seeking God's will for my life and currently traveling here and there.
2 comments:
Not sure if this will actually help or not, but I wanted to share how I tend to discern whether it really is the Spirit leading me to do something or my own selfish desires.
As a believer, I have the Holy Spirit in my head. Always. He never leaves. So when a thought comes into my head, its one of two people. Me or the Spirit.
Me? I'm just human. If it were just my thoughts going though my head, then nothing Kindgom minded would ever get done. I'm selfish, prideful, and full of sin apart of God.
So when thinking of it that way it always comes out pretty clear if it is me thinking or if it is God telling me to do something. If the thoughts are telling me to do something that benefits only me, or doesn't have any real significance, then thats all my feeble human mind. But if they are telling me to do something for the Kingdom, then its clear that it has to be God telling me that through the Spirit.
And even on the off chance that maybe I came up with a plan that did include furthering the Kingdom, I hardly think God is going to object. I think that too often, people dwell so much on whether they are really doing what God wants them to do that they miss the point entirely.
If it is something that is Gospel oriented and furthers the Kingdom, then yes, that is EXACTLY what God wants you to do.
Wow, that actually helped out so much. I´m still praying, thank you so much for sharing that with me!
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