Well, it has been a long time since I’ve blogged. If you were worried, I made it back to America safely about 2 months ago and since then have gotten my immune system back functioning normally. Praise God!
Now I’m back in Chapel Hill and about a month into my senior year here. While I seem to have a tendency to over commit myself, this semester is proving to be the busiest yet as I attempt to juggle a rigorous 18 hour course load, two jobs, leading a freshman Bible study, and tutoring. While all of these things seem great, my prayer is that they are not just “things” to me, but rather opportunities to worship the Lord through my life and hopefully spread the gospel to the people that I am around that I love so dearly.
As I’ve been getting used to my schedule and the various things in which I am involved I have been challenged with how to reflect the gospel in my life in each area and how to most effectively share the hope of my living Savior with those that surround me.
So, today I will share with you one area where the Lord has spoken clearly to me and I am thrilled with how I see him moving and working around me. One of my jobs is working within Campus Recreation, specifically for Intramural Sports as a Supervisor. I love my job as it allows me to be around sports all the time (and if you know me, then you will know that a job couldn’t get much better than that). Additionally, I love the people I work with…they are fun, athletic, out-going, personable, competitive, smart…but they don’t know Jesus. This breaks my heart.
The Lord laid it on my heart to start praying for my co-workers and friends in campus rec. Within the next few weeks I find out about 3 other supervisors in campus rec who are believers, one of whom is my boss. I start talking to them about the burden I feel for our co-workers and it seems that the Lord has placed a similar burden on their hearts. My boss let me know of 2 other guys that we work with that are believers. I was so encouraged to know that there were 6 of us who knew Jesus and how much faster and more effective we would be able to be in reaching UNC campus rec for Jesus! I contacted each of the people and asked if they would be interested in meeting weekly together to pray for the salvation of our friends and each of them were so eager to do so. The 6 of us now meet weekly and lift our friends, coworkers and superiors up in prayer!
The Lord completely orchestrated all of this. I’m so thankful for the hearts of my brothers and sisters in campus rec who are joining me in praying for opportunities to share Life with others. We are not just crossing our fingers that something happens as a result of our devoted prayers, but we are waiting in eager expectation, knowing and believing that God will answer the prayers of his children and bring lost souls to Him.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. –Hebrews 10:23-25
