Stuff Happens
Well, plans change. Being a senior in highschool people tend to ask what i will be doing next year. For a while i was telling them i didn't know. Later, I started telling them i was seriously looking at recording school but after MYC '05 and my recent visit to IPR in Minneapolis i have changed my mind, believe it or not. Years ago i was called into the music ministry at a summer camp. After years of no measurable progress, I gave up on that dream and ran to something that would quiet the questions about the future, at least for a while. I don't think people realize what those questions do to seniors and even juniors. We end up so concerned about the future that we don't care about the present. Anyhow, youth convention was amazing. The week before we left I asked myself and God a simple question: what if i was ready for convention? What if I asked God to do something amazing? So i prayed quite often and asked God to blow my mind. He proceeded to blow me completely out of the water, so to speak.
The preacher gave a call to come to the alter if you felt called to the ministry. I made my way out of my seat and down to the alter, sorta. I wasn't near the front at all. After a few songs, i thought i was done, but God had a diffrent plan for that afternoon. He sent someone to tell me i needed to go closer to the alter, that he had more for me. Even the person he sent blew my mind besides the fact he singled me out in a crowd of thousands. I went down front and began to weap: i had never felt this way. Youth leaders began to pray for me and things went crazy; i could hardly stand up. Jon asked me what i was thinking, i told him i was thinking about the call i received years before. he asked me if i had been running, i told him that i had been. that question has stuck with me: am i running away from the plan? Am i so caught up in me that i've lost the vision? I pray i won't loose that vision, ever.
So what is that vision you may ask? I have a few clues but the overall picture is still blury. God will clear things up as time passes and i'm ok with that. When those people ask what i'm doing next year, i will be honest: i don't know for sure.
If you ever feel stagnent in your faith, ask God to shake things up and believe he will.
The preacher gave a call to come to the alter if you felt called to the ministry. I made my way out of my seat and down to the alter, sorta. I wasn't near the front at all. After a few songs, i thought i was done, but God had a diffrent plan for that afternoon. He sent someone to tell me i needed to go closer to the alter, that he had more for me. Even the person he sent blew my mind besides the fact he singled me out in a crowd of thousands. I went down front and began to weap: i had never felt this way. Youth leaders began to pray for me and things went crazy; i could hardly stand up. Jon asked me what i was thinking, i told him i was thinking about the call i received years before. he asked me if i had been running, i told him that i had been. that question has stuck with me: am i running away from the plan? Am i so caught up in me that i've lost the vision? I pray i won't loose that vision, ever.
So what is that vision you may ask? I have a few clues but the overall picture is still blury. God will clear things up as time passes and i'm ok with that. When those people ask what i'm doing next year, i will be honest: i don't know for sure.
If you ever feel stagnent in your faith, ask God to shake things up and believe he will.
posted by Tom Petty at 9:52 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Petey- great post! I'm so glad your convention experience was a powerful one... God will do amazing things in your life when you will allow Him to.
I hope you had a wonderful road trip down south... let us know how it went!
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