Have you ever been really excited? So excited you wanted to smile bigger than your face would allow? So excited you wanted to squeeze the stuffing out of your pillow?
I can remember the night before vacation one year I had that feeling. Butterflies were in my stomach, I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop smiling and I kept bouncing up and down in my bed because I was so excited about going to the beach.
That's how I felt this whole weekend. Every time I closed my eyes to talk one on one to my God I felt like shouting and jumping. I felt like finding every pillow in the house and squeezing it so hard that it would no longer serve it's purpose. I felt like crying because I was so happy. I have never felt anything better than I felt then. I have never felt so fulfilled, I have never felt so alive and I have never felt so much joy in my whole entire life.
This weekend God showed me that I will never get anything from this world that will fill me up as much as he will. But I didn't just see it in writing; I felt it in my heart and soul.
I believe that i have come into contact with God. I believe that I've felt God's presence around me. But now I can truly say that God consumed me and I felt his presence within me.
God Changed a Life
Mine. (and probably many others)
I finally realized that my life in the ministry does not start when I graduate from seminary... My life in the ministry starts now. My studies of God's word starts now. My life as a mentor starts now. My life as a teacher starts now. My life as a counselor starts now. My life as an EXAMPLE starts now.
I need to stop being an idiot. I need to stop waiting until after seminary. I need to start my life as a minister... NOW.
I'm not talking about going and applying at different churches. I'm talking about being a minister to my friends, being a minister to my classmates, being a minister to the jerk in the left lane going the speed limit down 75, and being a minister to the people a pass every day, walking down the sidewalks of Kennesaw State University.
I am a minister; because God said so.
