Kinda my life summed up!

I'm in the process of reading "The Shack" by William P. Young. It's a nonfiction book on the Trinity...very thought provoking book.

Before each chapter he has quotes. When I found this quote it verbalized how I feel into words I'd never have been able to produce...until now:

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping for the known to the unknown.

-Author Unknown

Pretty much sums up my life!

God is calling me out to move (aka make a CHANGE) to Swaziland to GROW more into the likeness of Him. I've always felt as if moving me to Africa is God's way of fully getting my attention. He is moving me so much out of my comfort zone (there is huge RISK in this) and out of the "KNOWN" that I can do nothing but fully with my whole being depend and trust in Him.

Nursing school was one of those times that I was fully aware that I was unable and incapable of doing life on my own. Nursing school was beyond me...and I was fully aware of my short comings. BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL! He provided me with the strength and wisdom and knowledge to endure the school load. He gave me amazing friends that came around me and supported me and uplifted me. Without God's provision I would have been unable to make it through nursing school!

Now comes Swaziland...I am fully aware that I am unable and incapable of doing this life...African life on my own. Being a missionary to Swaziland is beyond me...and I am fully aware of my short comings.

(2nd verse same as the 1st).

BUT HE IS FAITHFUL and WORTHY OF MY TRUST!

He desires for me to continue to GROW in my relationship with Him...which involves some RISKS. Ya know? The risk of stepping from the KNOWN to the UNKNOWN?

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit..."

2 Cor 3:5-6

"But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

2 Corinthians 3:18

"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved.."

2 Corinthians 2:14-15

Praise be the One who is a God to be Known intimately!