If I would not have mustered the courage to risk my comfortable life and pursue my calling, I would have missed seeing what God had been orchestrating all my life.
If you follow soccer at all you would have heard by now that Leicester City Football Club, a soccer club in England, has won the British Premier League, one of the most well-known soccer leagues in the world. If you don’t follow soccer, you might not understand the importance of this victory. Leicester City showed how teamwork can be more important to success than incredible individual talent on one of the greatest sporting stages in the world.
The world has enough pagans. Even plenty of really nice ones. What we need is kids who fully grasp the reality that they have nothing to offer, but who intimately know a God who has everything they need.
The best worker in any enterprise is one whom God has called and His Spirit has sent. They are there, not for a paycheck (although that is often necessary) and not for recognition (although they would not mind a pat on the back occasionally), but because “the Lord sent me.”
How do you deal with disappointment? Some of us hide it away. We deny its reality with fine words. But deep down we become numb. We become afraid to trust God again. “Surviving disappointment” becomes our background story, influencing our response to every interaction. We need to grieve disappointment in a healthy way.