Questions.

I've often wondered what the key component for growing and maturing is. While I've found that there are many components that go into how and why we grow, I recently heard one of the most profound statements that helped the missing piece fall into place. I don't remember exactly what He said because I was so taken by it, I forgot to write it down. It went something like this. A true disciple is not defined by the complexity of his answers, but by the quality of his questions. I've thought about this a TON since I heard it and damn, it's so true.

I used to think that a mature person was someone who knew their stuff, someone who could confidently tell you why he/she believed what they believed. But then I noticed another observation, most of the people that I have known and respected as "mature" people in my life had one thing in common. They all "knew" the answers to most things that I would ask questions about. Most of them had reached a certain point in their life where they stopped growing, stopped maturing. I've wondered so many times over the last few years why this happens. I would say the answer to this question is simple. People have forgot how to ask questions. We as people are prone to get to a place in our lives where we answer all of the questions that we have though were important, we become content with the answers. And instead of continuing to ask questions and find answers, we simply sit back and make the simple answers that we found for our questions painfully complex.

We lose out wonder, we forget to ask ourselves questions about ourselves and life. The way to continue to grow and mature is to ask quality questions.

Mike

New.

My Dad's house is empty of everyone but me and the lonely cricket that I can hear somewhere. Today has been such a slow day for me it seems. I have so much to do, but I've been in one of those mindsets of not being sure where to start. So, I sat down and decided to see what I could do on my WR stuff, saw that I hadn't blogged yet, so I decided to do that.

Actually having a WR blog is a kinda crazy. I've read tons of other WR blogs from other people, but now I actually have one. I cannot wait for July to get here and the traveling to start. The ministries that God has led me to and taken me through this last summer have been the hardest and best season of my life, I know that as I continue to follow Him, it will continue to get better. I'm really not sure what to expect in this coming season of life with the World Race. And I think it's good not to have expectations, but at the same time have the right expectations. Here's what I mean. The right expectations would be; expecting God to completely change me top to bottom, expecting God to do great things through my team and myself, expect God to lead with His Spirit and expect life to be nothing I've experienced before. The wrong expectations; Planning out what I think God should do, and expecting Him to unfold events the way I imagined, expecting to be able to guess how God will do things.

Two different kinds of expectations. There is the right kind and the wrong kind.

Learning to embrace whatever He brings into my life, knowing that God has my good in mind, and that He is using me to further His Kingdom.
Romans 8:28
Mike