Take the time to watch this sermon from Macey as she shares about being all in and present in the "here" God has you in. Don't keep waiting until you get "there" to begin serving God. Try and watch until the end and I believe God will touch your heart deeply.
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Acts 17: 13-17 (NIV)
“But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.”
“A lot of us think God is going to use us when we get somewhere over ‘there’- when I graduate, when I get that degree, when I get that post graduate degree, when I get married. We are all waiting for our ‘one day when’- when I am in another place, when my situation has changed, when my material situation has changed, when my relational situation has changed, when my environment has changed.
So what the enemy will try to do is devalue wherever we are right now. He’ll try to make you think that where you are is unimportant and God could not possibly use you in this place. He will tell you that wherever your ‘here’ is, is too hard. The challenge for us is that when we finally get ‘there’, it will just be another “here”. God wants us to serve Him here. Now. Because we’re only ever ‘here’ once.” - Christine Caine
“But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.”
“A lot of us think God is going to use us when we get somewhere over ‘there’- when I graduate, when I get that degree, when I get that post graduate degree, when I get married. We are all waiting for our ‘one day when’- when I am in another place, when my situation has changed, when my material situation has changed, when my relational situation has changed, when my environment has changed.
So what the enemy will try to do is devalue wherever we are right now. He’ll try to make you think that where you are is unimportant and God could not possibly use you in this place. He will tell you that wherever your ‘here’ is, is too hard. The challenge for us is that when we finally get ‘there’, it will just be another “here”. God wants us to serve Him here. Now. Because we’re only ever ‘here’ once.” - Christine Caine