Friday, March 27, 2009
my future car
I had the most interesting, unrelated-to-anything-I-was-doing-at-the-time conviction during the Ignite prayer meeting this week. We were singing worship songs and my mind started drifting to anxious thoughts about how I was going to get home from the meeting. I started thinking about whether I could escape early enough to catch the bus and if not, from whom should I ask for a ride and when? My eyes started scanning the room of people and before I knew it, the worship song were were singing was all but over and I had barely participated.
In that moment, I felt the weight of conviction about my future car - the one that I will get, God-willing, at the end of my summer internship. Having gone through the trial of being without a car for most of college (and yes, I really would consider this a trial of sorts), I know that my future car is to be used as a ministry tool to serve others. You may think that 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 is an interesting verse to apply to this situation, but the fact that I thought of it while I was typing this leads me to believe I'm supposed to share it. If God will choose to comfort my seemingly constant anxiety of getting from A to B safely and in a timely way by providing a car for me to steward, how I can I refuse the opportunity to use that blessing to comfort others?
Although I don't know exactly how this conviction will flesh out realistically (when do we ever know immediately?), God did bring some ideas to my mind:
-I want my future roommate to KNOW, without a doubt, that my car is always available for their use, no matter how many times they have to ask. Whether they don't have a car at all or their car is in the shop or they need transportation to/from the airport, my car is for these things.
-I want to specifically and intentionally let Ignite (or whatever other ministry I am involved in) know that I am available to drive people to their off-campus homes after our late prayer meetings and can pick them up to attend Ignite events as well. I don't know how many times in college I have been interested in attending a church or ministry-related function but ended up not for lack of a way to get there. I want to make a Facebook group. I want to stand up at the end of an Ignite meeting and ask everyone who needs a ride to their off-campus home to come to me. How I long for someone to do that this year!
-I will never drive only myself to church.
Amen, Lord, make these things so.
In that moment, I felt the weight of conviction about my future car - the one that I will get, God-willing, at the end of my summer internship. Having gone through the trial of being without a car for most of college (and yes, I really would consider this a trial of sorts), I know that my future car is to be used as a ministry tool to serve others. You may think that 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 is an interesting verse to apply to this situation, but the fact that I thought of it while I was typing this leads me to believe I'm supposed to share it. If God will choose to comfort my seemingly constant anxiety of getting from A to B safely and in a timely way by providing a car for me to steward, how I can I refuse the opportunity to use that blessing to comfort others?
Although I don't know exactly how this conviction will flesh out realistically (when do we ever know immediately?), God did bring some ideas to my mind:
-I want my future roommate to KNOW, without a doubt, that my car is always available for their use, no matter how many times they have to ask. Whether they don't have a car at all or their car is in the shop or they need transportation to/from the airport, my car is for these things.
-I want to specifically and intentionally let Ignite (or whatever other ministry I am involved in) know that I am available to drive people to their off-campus homes after our late prayer meetings and can pick them up to attend Ignite events as well. I don't know how many times in college I have been interested in attending a church or ministry-related function but ended up not for lack of a way to get there. I want to make a Facebook group. I want to stand up at the end of an Ignite meeting and ask everyone who needs a ride to their off-campus home to come to me. How I long for someone to do that this year!
-I will never drive only myself to church.
Amen, Lord, make these things so.
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