Every Wednesday, my church, La Iglesia Evangelica del Cielo, has a church service with amazing worship. This Wednesday while sitting in the service I had two realizations.
The first is that the church has really grown. And it isn't just people that come once and then leave. The church is growing by leaps and bounds with new believers -- children, adolescents, young college students and adults are all part of the new influx of church attendees in El Cielo. The church has grown so much that regular Sunday and Wednesday night services all the seats are taken and many more are left standing on the sides, in the back and in the stairwell.
The church has plans to build across the street from its current location. It will be a wider, longer church with 2 or 3 floors to hold classrooms, meeting rooms, a library and offices. I am so excited for the new developments! When the church community started working in El Cielo 5 years ago, I'm not sure they even imagined that the church would grow so fast, so soon!
My second realization was that we really have only two choices in life -- to live for God or to live for ourselves. I realized that we can be doing work for God, but still be living for ourselves. Because living for God has to do with whole hearted complete submission to Him in everything that we do. Absolutely every area of our lives must be turned over to Him and allow Him to do what He wants to do with us. Not just the convenient parts, the more visible parts or the easy parts of our lives - the parts of our lives that we are ambivalent about. No, the parts of our lives that are so important and deep rooted in all that we are, those are the areas of our lives that God wants for Himself. And if we give these areas over to God, then He can bless them and use us in new and amazing ways.
Have a wonderful weekend filled with blessings and new revelations of God's goodness and provision!
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