Who said anything about safe?

Too many thoughts in my head: living/praying in the Spirit, Graham Cooke, Dave Roberson, wondering why I’m living out in my flesh too many times and how much more empowered I would be in the spirit, Ann Cong of Kamp’s coming up to me to tell me that I’m a leader, awesome churches around here and the communities that surround it, parents being in Korea for the past week due to my grandfather passing away, my baby brother’s latest achievement, dropping down to part-time status so I can spend more time at the mission, my friend visiting tomorrow night for a few days, etc…

Sometimes, when I hear crazy amazing news about my younger brother, I can’t help but look at my own life and think I’m failing in many areas. I know there are “Jesus freaks” out there that will never get recognition for their time on earth, but there are also many that are favored by God & man for His advancements.

One of them is my younger brother, who recently found out that he’s the next brigade commander at the naval academy. What exactly is that? I had to google it :P, but I found an article that gave me a pretty good idea.

crazy. Considering that he took a year off to do mission work in Korea. He called me often to tell me how much he was struggling and how hard things were. I don’t know how he does it. I would’ve called it quits. But yeah. His life reminded me of the sermon I heard at Bridgeway concerning the life of Joseph.

Authority: servants in the hard places serving someone else’s vision. Suffering is always an opportunity for the presence of God to be revealed. Humility manifest -> serving people.