God is able.: October 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012

changes...

Now, it really has been a long time since I have blogged. Life has been pretty busy with getting married and having a baby. Greg and I were married on the 4th of June 2011 and Jensen Atticus was born on the 5th of May 2012. Last year we were in Ontario where Greg taught his last year at the missionary training center. Now we are on the road as we prepare to go to Asia-Pacific as church planters! We are so grateful that God is allowing us to play a part in His work!!

I have been reading Hebrews lately and this morning I read through Hebrews 10. We are warned about the consequences of sinning deliberately once we know the truth. What a strong reminder for believers to walk in step with the Holy Spirit and not to ignore his urging and conviction.

Lately I have found it is difficult to be patient. I never thought of myself as an impatient person in the past, but now that I am married and have a baby, I find I am very impatient. It doesn't take much fussing on the part of Jensen before I am ready to be done with it all! I have been praying that God would help me to be more patient with my son and I suppose He is teaching me patience through these fussy times of Jensen's. But there are some days where I get glimmer of hope and Jensen is just the sweetest little guy (like today for example :))! Thank you God for helping me to learn patience and please help me to be a quick learner!!

If you are praying for us, please be praying for our adjustment as we are in a new place now and getting as settled as we can be :)

Ephesians 4.1-16

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.