Lately I have been feeling somewhat overwhelmed. Life is actually pretty sweet right now. I am very content and loving life, so it doesn’t quite make sense to feel overwhelmed.
The reason that I feel overwhelmed is actually because every so often I stop and look at my life and think “how did I get here?” I am overwhelmed at the amazing things I get to do, the amazing people I get to do life with, and even at the person that I have become!
It doesn’t feel like it was all that long ago that I was an insecure, shy and timid teenageer unsure of what I was doing with my life. So you could image why I stop and ask myself “how did I get here?”
I am writing this blog during one of the breaks at our annual youth conference ‘Encounter’. In the last session as we were worshipping God, he spoke to me and revealed how it was that I got to where I am today.
God reminded me how for some time there have been some simple prayers that I pray. More than an eloquently articulated prayer, they are my hearts cry, and not contained to any particular form or wording but their message stays the same;
“Let me know you more”
“Make me more like you”
“Use me”
As I have prayed these simple yet dangerous prayers over the years God has answered them and changed me. As I have gotten to know God more I have also come to know who I am. As I have become more like Jesus I have found purpose and become who I am meant to be. As God has used me it has brought forth such amazing opportunities and relationships that I could never have imaged.
God encounters have changed my life
The other reason that I often feel overwhelmed is that God has placed such crazy, unrealistic and seemingly unachievable dreams in my heart. I know that they are from God, and as they are that he is faithful to make it happen but it still overwhelms me to think that he’d use me.
