No Compromise

I finished reading No Compromise this week. I started it over a month ago but have had so little time to read that its taken a while to get through it. If you've never read it, GO GET IT NOW. It was that good.
It also came at a really perfect time. This week we were studying the Gospel of Mark, and God was definitely speaking through both. Even the message at Community Meeting on Thursday (which is pretty much like you'd expect any mid-week church service to be like) held a similar message. The base leader from the Taiwan base was speaking (he was also our speaker for Mark) about making decisions and trusting God to lead you AS you move, not so much BEFORE you move. Not saying that we shouldn't pray before we do things, but that often we stand still forever wondering when God will tell us what our next step is, but he simply wants us to just GET GOING, using the gifts and passions he's given us. He's a good God. When we need to know something, HE'LL TELL US. We often need to be willing to just step out and do something, knowing that if we're going in the wrong direction, he'll start closing doors and opening new ones.
Anyway, this is definitely a lesson I thought I'd learned before, but came as an incredibly well-timed reminder. During DTS Equip over the summer I felt some definite stress about what our long-term plans are. I could stand still and worry myself silly over it, or we can start dreaming and planning what our next step will be after SBS. This week, between lectures, studying, that teaching, and reading about Keith Green, God planted in us more dreams for the future--AND most importantly, the confidence that he will be in those plans, guiding us even when we feel like we don't have a clue what we're doing.
And if you haven't read the book of Mark lately, I suggest you do. Jesus is AMAZING!