The World According To Chris Brewer

I just realized something regarding my walk with Christ over the past week.

I’m planning a lot of stuff for my future…i.e. what am I going to do when I get out of the Air Force next year? Move to Springfield, Missouri near my family? Move to Seattle or Tacoma, Washington near my friends? Stay in Virginia (remote possibility)? Even though that’s over a year away, I still have to somewhat plan for it…like start saving up money, etc.

But this morning I was reading in the Bible, I believe it was Luke chapter 12, where Jesus told his disciples not to worry about the clothes they would wear the next day or the next meal they would eat. That’s pretty tough to not worry about, considering if you don’t have clothes you can’t go out in public without someone pointing it out, laughing, etc. And if you don’t have any food, you’ll die eventually. I guess that’s just how important it is to trust in Jesus. Jesus was telling them that he supplies their every need. Now of course He isn’t saying to throw caution to the wind and live your life without a care in the world, but instead the message is to have a strong faith in Jesus to continue following Him and trust that He will provide your every need (NOTE: not make you filthy rich, heal you ALL THE TIME, etc.) as He sees fit. God is the only one that knows what’s best for us.

So this ties in with me moving soon because I have to learn to trust Jesus and find out what He wants me to do and where He wants me to go. He’s gonna show me in due time and I just have to trust that. Although I think right now He’s leaning more toward Missouri.

Interestingly enough, the message also ties in with words the Holy Spirit gave two separate people to tell me on different occasions. A couple weeks ago, Pastor Rick at Lakeside Church called me up to the front during altar call and prayed with me. The Lord told him that the message for me was “Stop trying so hard.” What a concept…I had tried so hard and looked in all the wrong places to find God’s will when He’s standing right in front of me, jumping up and down waving his hands and saying “I’m right here, just keep your eyes on me.” From that point on, I just kept praying that the Lord would reveal His will to me as he sees fit, and that he would also confirm whether I was on the right track or not in keeping my life in line with the Word.

Then the second word came Sunday night at Life Group. A woman named Jen was sitting there and had been praying as I walked in the door to Steve and Laurie’s house. She shared that the Holy Spirit had given her one main word…”seeking.” The Lord told her to tell me that I had been wandering and searching for God’s will for so long and now I am in the right place….continue to pursue God in the place I am at and not stay complacent.

It’s amazing how God works. So many times I had based my relationship with God on what others had told me, how well things were going in relationships with friends, family, etc. But each of our relationships with God are between us and Him only, and other Christians are there to support us. It’s up to us to choose whether we want to accept or reject God initially, and when we do accept Him into our lives, to continue to fight the battle, run the race and stay in the faith.

Awesome stuff. Gotta go to work soon, wish I could type more.