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What Will You
Experience?
The Journey
You look out the bus
window after a long day of travelling and see the hot Queensland sun
melting into the distant hills, releasing a symphony of colours across
the sky, announcing to all creation that another day is drawing to a
close. As you sit there you think about the sermon you preached last
night to a small group of country youth and with that thought comes a
sense of triumph and victory… another fear conquered.
It has only been eight
weeks since you left home but already so much about you has changed.
You have touched the reality and depth of God that has set you on a
course of adventure and fulfilment.
Like the night you were standing
on the beach listening to the waves and looking at the stars just
feeling the stillness of the night. In that moment where there was no
one watching, no one needing to be impressed, you found yourself
standing before God with nothing to offer but the rawness of your
humanity and your tormented heart. Beyond your brokenness and fear
you come to Him, perplexed yet aware that He desired your affection…He
desired you. You remember thinking that He is such a mystery. Yet
you found beauty in the simplicity of moving beyond your questions and
apprehensions to where all you knew was that you liked the way He made
you feel.
As the last ray of
light slips over the horizon and the first star appears in the sky you
search for a word to describe how you feel. Never has the future been
so uncertain, nor have you ever been so deeply challenged and yet you
feel you have finally found yourself standing in the Son… free!
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