October 19, 2003

The Hills Are Alive

Today was spent at the Tuscarora Baptist Church, in deep in the hills of western New York. This is the church where I grew up. As I drove the widing road that leads from the four-lane into the mountains, I could not help but contemplate the winding road that has led me to the place in life where I now find myself.

If you had asked me as a child--roaming those lovely hills--where I would be in 20 years, I would have told you many things, most likely none of them having to do with the mission field or deputation. The path of my life has been just as winding, just as filled with curves and potholes has the road I drove today.

Yet God has been clearly working out his own ends, despite my stubbornness and self-centeredness. Arriving at the church today, I was thrilled to see what God is doing with the congregation that I was a part of for over 16 years. Growth, maturity, and enthusiasm are three words that could be used to characterize the personality of that church.

At this juncture of the winding road of my life, those three characteristics are ones that I would like people to find in me...growth, maturity, and enthusiasm. Growth in my relationship with Christ, maturity in the word, and enthusiasm for the work to which I have been called. With these charactaristics in place, perhaps the road of the next 31 years of my life will not be quite so twisted. Or perhaps it will. Who knows? Straight roads can be boring!

Posted by Andrew on October 19, 2003 9:29 AM.

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Posted by: The Chairman of Gop at October 22, 2003 10:00 AM