His Faithfulness Displayed

I chose the web address for this blog (HisFaithfulnessDisplayed) because I believe that it really summarizes God's actions in my life...whether I'm aware of how or not! Each step in my life from the day I was born into a Christian family, was personally drawn to the Lord and saved at a young age, got my first deer (and others since =)), had good highschool jobs, was helped to get a good degree and offered an opportunity to get my masters degree payed for, have been shown favour in career progression, have been blessed with a good church and opportunities to serve, enabled to buy a house, and many other small and large things have all been evidences of God's favor and kindness. Despite my unfaithfulness and sinfulness he has been faithful to forgive, faithful to love, and faithful to bless well beyond what I deserve. The line from the song Always Forgiven, "all you have shown me is grace, love, and mercy" is really true.



Honestly, though the above is totally true I need to grow in cultivating an awareness and gratefulness for it. However, my hope is that this blog will point to the truth of his faithfulness and kindness and serve as an encouragement and reminder to myself. I also hope that it will encourage you as well because the same God who has and will continue to show me faithfulness is also at work in the same way on your behalf! What a blessing that we all serve a God who is actively working in our lives and the functioning of the world to bring forth a superb plan much greater than we can work out. Even in the hard times, we can rest in his sovereignty.



One recent example of God's faithfulness has been through my work situation. I had been blessed to have gotten a relatively new job that was a big improvement from the previous with a company. Things were going well and there seemed to be some good potential for future advancement. However, for various reasons it just didn't seem "right." Long story short, one day while on a jobsite in downtown Charlotte inspecting some work I was sitting down during a slow point just kind of praying in my head about my job and life and asking God for direction...and right in the middle of that a friend I new from another company happened to be walking by so I said hello. We ended up going out to lunch and it turned out that he was very disappointed that I had taken the job with this other company because he was hoping he'd be able to hire me, and though I was pretty intent on staying I listened to his thought for why I should join him. After taking some time to speak to some of the folks within his company and to pray about it and seek some counsel I finally decided to come on board not totally sure of what i was getting myself into but sensing it was the Lord.



Now I have been with the company The Shaw Group for a month and a half and it really seems to be a great fit! The work is more interesting, it is more pay, the hours are better, the environment is nicer, and I think there are more learning and advancement opportunities. Who knows how long I'll be here or what will happen in the future but for now it seems like it is just what I needed. Two examples...it has helped me to be able to throw more time into preparing for the church plant and helped make it possible to acquire my new house. How kind of the Lord to provide!



Here is a picture of me off to our company Christmas party last week...I think at 800+ people it was the largest party of that type I've been too!