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IBS 63 - John 4:34

John 4:34
“My food, ‘Said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work.’”

My overseer, Cassandra Lopez, read me this verse the other day at church, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I want to do the will of Him who sent me. Doing the will of Christ will ensure an everlasting joy instead of doing what I want to, ensuring a very short amount of happiness. That doesn’t mean that doing the will of Christ is going to make things easy and fun, it’s hard and painful. But I have full confidence that in the long run, my soul will be with the one whom I love. My savior. 
Doing the will of Him is hard at first because it’s hard to let go of your desires and wants. It’s hard to give it all to Christ. It’s hard to surrender. A couple of days ago, my teammate Vanessa and I were talking to her youth pastor, Christian. He asked us to write down five things that God was telling us to let go of. Writing this list has been easy because I know the things I need to let go of, but it’s been hard because I don’t want to let go of them. One of them was my rights/comfort. The things I want and desire. 

Since being in Costa Rica, I’ve been craving cold weather, iced coffee, donuts, bug free beds, etc. I haven’t been cherishing the time here and fully doing the will of Him. I’ve been dreaming of the comfortable life I was living back in Indianapolis. God doesn’t say that I’ll have a comfortable life following Him. God’s shown me that He is everything I need and the comforts of this world and temporary. That the souls I’m fellowshipping with are forever. Doing His will has an eternal promise. 

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