About two years ago I remember saying that I would never go treeplanting unless I heard an audible voice from God telling me to. And now I'm leaving to go planting in less than 48 hours. How did I get here? well I didn't have the thundering voice from the heavens commanding me to, but I do feel called to be going. My former pastor talks all the time about how treeplanting was one of the most spiritually challenging and rewarding times of his life, not to mention physically and mental challenging. Challenges are good and I don't do enough challenging things in life. And I need a change of scenery, of which this will be a big one. So long story short I feel that God has directed my path to this point and following him to the bush is what I must do.
Also, lots of people would say that they go on big adventures like this to go 'find themselves' which to me is not only over used but lame and largely unproductive. I fully understand that I am totally depraved and a sinful person. So I am not going to 'find' or 'discover' myself, I'm have a fairly good idea of what that looks like. Rather I am going to go and discover the richness, the wonder and the majesty that is Jesus Christ. The blog url comes from the Foo Fighters song 'Let it Die' and from Romans 8:13. The hope is that Jesus would put to death my sinful desires and devises and that I would let them die.
Romans 8:13 - For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live
Talk to you from the bush.
~CHAD
5 comments:
Hi Chad, hope you made it there safe and sound.
i'm excited !!!!!!!!!!!
hey chad can't wait to see how tired you are after tree planting for the day.
FYI apparently everybody likes the food that goes tree planting!
Sounds like you have a challenging while coming up. Good luck out there, and hopefully we'll hear some good stories from you!
never say never :)
enjoy this opportunity.
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