The Call

Hey everyone,

So the summer is coming to an end and where did it all go? Time spent at a few different summer camps I'm sure. I know up at camp Imadene (sorry if that's a spelling error..) there are lots of fun times happening and God is doing some cool things already.

Latley I have had a lot of awesome and cool things going on. So many cool things its almost hard to choose what to do and what to keep doing. I know a lot of you guys this year will be hitting some more senior classes and In those senior classes you'll be getting struck with questions of what your goals are and where you see yourself in 3, 4, 10 years and to be honest its OKAY if you don't know. Even now knowing I wan't to do ministry it's extremeley hard to choose where to be and stay and get educated and so forth. If your having trouble with your calling or just even where to go in the next 3 months. Maybe it's what club to join, what sport to play, even choices with a guy or girl you like, it's never to late or to lame to bring up to God. Don't ever feel discouraged praying what you might think is a weird or unheard prayer. God is listening and aware and is always working.

We all have plans and dreams and we all want them to go the way we plan them.. orr we wouldn't make plans at all. I'm not talking about making plans for the night or what movie your choosing I mean BIG plans, and oddly enough sometimes there are many paths to take. For a while I felt that no matter where I went its okay thats the path God has chosen, all the mistakes I make all the choices thats exactly what God want's and how he wants it and so forth. yeaa not so much. God wouldn't choose for you to make a big mistake or do a lot of things humans do. God has blessed us with something called "free will" and although it gets us into trouble It also allows us to choose Jesus as our Savior and allow God into our life. If we didn't have this freedom we would all just be robots worshiping God all the time. God has knows the plans he has for us, and If we seek him he will reveal and affirm places and things we need to do but as humans we might take detours, we might think he wants us in one place and find out its another. Or give us a love for one thing and then SHAZAM here comes the oppisite. Don't be afraid just continue to seek and know that we serve a God in control and one who will always be with us even if we go astray. Be confident that God has a plan and do the very very best you can to walk it to perfection. None of us will, but we will glorify God doing all we can to trying. Check out Proverbs chapter 16. I took this excert from it but I suggest reading it all!

God Bless
-Luke

Proverbs 16
1 To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue. 2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD. 3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. ... 6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil. 7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD he makes even his enemies live at peace with  him.