Plans....

We've been on this journey of Reveal Church that God has called us to for right at a year & a half.  When it first started I saw things coming together and us running in the hundreds by this time b/c that's how I thought things would go.  But God had other plans, plans much more difficult than what imagined.  Plans that would test my faith and trust in Him.  Plans that would require us to make more sacrifices than planned.  Plans that would have me working two jobs. Plans that would have me pissed off and arguing with Christ b/c it was happening as I planned.  Plans that would make me look more closely at who I am and who I want to be. Plans that pushed us in areas that we wouldn't have been pushed had they gone like I thought they would.  

As crazy, different and difficult as it has been it has also been one of the greatest times of growth in my life.  God's plans have brought me closer to Him, they have made me more grateful for what I have.  His plans have brought me closer to my wife and challenged us to trust Him more.  His plans have been greater than my plans.  

I'm still making plans because it would be stupid not to but I'm on Christ's time table not my own.  I look forward to the day that I see God using Reveal Church in a huge way but for now He is using it in a huge way in my own life.