Life is good though, I am really enjoying life in Croydon. I love Croydon Jubilee Church. I love everything about it. I love the things God is doing here, the people I work with, the new people I'm meeting, the new friendships I'm making, the opportunities that God is giving me, the independent coffee shop on Selsdon High Street (Milano), their free wifi and honey lattes (which aren't free!), the lovely people I'm living with and the wonderful food we eat together, the fact that central london is 25 minutes and £7.50 away.....I could go on and on and on...!
I can't quite get my head around that fact that I'm here. I know I'm in a honeymoon period right now, but I also know that God has called me here so why shouldn't I be loving it? It's so silly to think anything different - the journey here has at times been painful, and there have been times when I haven't totally understood what God was doing. But now I do, now I can look back and see that He was bringing me out into a spacious place, a place where I can continue to grow, a place where I can do new things, learn new things and see God do spectacular things.
Sometimes we get things twisted, we think that the hardships are the norm, that struggling is what we're supposed to do. However I serve a God who said he'd come so that we may have 'life in its fullness'. Our characters need to be shaped, honed, challenged and moulded, and sometimes the fact that we live in a world that isn't seeking to honour God means that really rubbish stuff happens. BUT Gods intention was always that we have life in its fullness, that we reign in life, that the shackle of sin doesn't hold us back and that we have an absolute ball as we see His Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.
So this week (a week that is shaping up to be pretty crazily busy...) I'm going to seek to live in the fullness of all that God has done for me, of all that He's bought me into and of all that He's got planned.
Want to join me?!
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