So i am beginning to realize that my time here in Poland won't last forever! LOL. It is a little more than halfway through my time here....it seems i forgot to celebrate my 2 month anniversary like i wanted to! I can't believe how fast time goes, seriously! I mean, i don't even feel like i have been here for nearly 2 and a half months! And just in this short amount of time how much the Lord has done in my life! I was talking to a friend the other day and it feels like my relationship with God has grown in a new and different way than it has ever had the oppurtunity to before because of the whole situation. It is really amazing how our relationship with God is like that....we can have tons of different kinds of experiences with Him and learn and grow in different ways through them, just like with our relationships to people. This is a dimension of God and an experience of Him i have never had before. And now that i do have it.....it is like, i want to keep having it!
I was talking with another friend, and i believe the Lord has helped me in a major way since i have been here with discovering my testimony. HE has used a friend here, Stephanie Warren (a fellow missionary) to help me with this. I know it may soud strange..."discover your testimony? What in the world do you even mean by that???" What i mean is, since i grew up in a "christian home", it wasn't like the world could see this HUGE tranformation overnight from a life of total sin to a life of "good". By the wolrds standards, i was already a "good" person. So i think there has always been this itch for me of, am i really saved? And was it really God that worked in my life? Or has this just been a natural progression for me as an individual who is maturing? Was it God's power in my life that makes me who i am? Or is it just something that happened? And Stephanie gave me this mind picture of a tent, and how a tent is held down by all the pegs...and she was talking about her own faith and asking herself what pegs she had in her life that let her know for sure without a doubt that God was real and He was evident to her in her life. And i began to think of my walk with the Lord, adn what "pegs" i had--what expereinces i have with Him that give me no room for doubt of His charge over my life and the direction of it and of who He is. And i think a testimony is a crucial part of the confidence we have in God. that time of change in your life when you meet God--or He meets you!--and there is a change from that point forward. And the Lord has just been revealing things to me about my own life! Imagine that--HA! Learning from another person about MY LIFE! LOL. It seems so crazy, but now i know what God means wen He says He knows us better than we know ourselves. :) HE DOES.....not just figuratively, or as a way of exaggeration to make a point. He really does know us more htan we know ourselves, and even from the time we were born, and even before, He knew the life we would have, the expereinces we would need, the places we would need to go, the people we would need to be in contact with, the mistakes we would have to make....ALL so that in the end, we could turn to Him and say, "YOU are so good!" So i am just rejoicing in this, that MY GOD, knows me better than i even know myself! And he is helping me discover my testimony of how he has worked in my life in the past, how it is affecting my present and the knowledge that He will continue the work in the future!
So just a fun event....last night i got to hang out with Marcin--one of my Polish friends who is studying English and is also almost ready to become a teacher!!! We kind of just walked around a certain area of Poznan that has just really cool architecture and we just talked--a lot about language and just the differences in American culture and Polish culture, about teaching, about growing up and all sorts of stuff! And he took me for my first pizza here in Poland!!! And o man! The pizza here is pretty much fantabulous!! The crust is really good! And the toppings are fresh and the combinations we got were excellent. And before, i thought the white sauce i saw squeezed on the top of pizza was Mayo--becuase Polish people put mayo or ketchup on everything it seems like! LOL--but it is actually this really tasty garlic sauce! So yeah, it was great. And he seriously didn't even think twice about the fact that both of us ate half a pizza. LOL. It was great! But we walked it all off! *wink* thats how i justified it! You can't not have a good time with Marcin becuase he is just funny and fun. He has a real sincerity and genuineness about him that is just so nice and he is really high energy--like me!--and smiling all the time. And his views and thoughts on things are really honest and simple and he communicates with English REALLY WELL...sometimes better than me! LOL. So it was just real encouraging to be around him and talking about things that i can relate to with him--since we both want to be teachers and we both are "learners". :) And of course, we both love the Lord which makes it all that much better!
And now i am getting ready to head off to catch a train for Gniezno to spend the night with the wonderful Nungesser family!!! It is going to be a fun night filled with LOTS OF Make Believe, stories, Barbies, Imagination, Excitement and Blessing....and of course Training for when my own little sister gets to be the same age as Adelyne!!! ;) So take care everyone! Hope the Lord is blessing you right this moment!
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