Dunno if it's for ever, but it's definitely for now...James 4:13-15

A friend in the States and I were able to talk for about an hour over chat last night and he asked me a simple question, "So you feel like you're in the right place?"  This question really got me excited because although my answer to it in relevance to where I am on this earth was, "Dunno if it's for ever, but it's definitely for now."

However, I can't help, but see that this way of looking at my life comes from the fact that I can see that no matter where I choose to be on this earth, I'm "in the right place" because no matter where I am I strive to see how I can glorify God while I am where I am and keep Him at the centre of my life.  And I've only come to this conclusion through the realization of His power and might.  God isn't dependent on me making the "right" decision in order for His plans to come together.  As much as we put so much pressure on ourselves to make the right decision, it ultimately should be a humbling revelation to realize God doesn't have to use me, yet He chooses to use me.  Now that is liberating!  To be a vessel for the King of kings and Lord of lords could not excite me more!! 

You see, the conversation I had with my friend back in the States came after I had finished over a 12 hour day and I was on cloud nine.  This was not because of any great conversation with one individual I could pinpoint, but more because I knew that through that long day I was being used by God and I could not contain the joy that was inside me in realizing He chooses to use me.

Yet still I ponder this verse:

The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
Proverbs 16:9

For me it reminds me that God is a part of my mundane, every day, life.  He wants to be in my life.  The God who created all that I see, hear, feel, taste, and touch desires to and does know me intimately.  What kind of God does that?  Unconditionally loving is the only way I can describe it and that doesn't even seem to do justice.

I'm not going to say that I'm going to be here in Newcastle forever because as James 4:13-15 says,

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—  yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

This has taught me to realize it's not about figuring out where I'll be come this time next year, but rather making the most of today, for I'm guaranteed only up to this point, this moment in my life, and I'd like to know I did all I could to make my King famous right here, right now, today.

How am I, how are you, making The King famous today, now?