Two years ago today I raised my right hand and took an oath that has forever altered the course of my life. In my journey from pastor to active duty chaplain, I always believed I would be deployed, but now after living the reality the last 5 months here in Jalalabad Afghanistan I can honestly say, one never really can grasp the enormity of seemingly innocuous decisions. I would not change a bit knowing what I know, but I think I would have appreciated the journey to get here a little more. I would have reflected more on my own words of faith, "If God be for us who can be against us."
As I reflect back today, there were so many border bullies along the way to this dream, so many saying; your too old, your too broken, you dont have the right degrees, the right personalities, wrong color, wrong faith, wrong sex....and yet here I stand on the dream God gave me three years ago, in country, on active duty, loving God, and bringing Jesus to Joes, and Joes to Jesus. What a God.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
Ps 139:7-10
I raised my right hand to swear and serve,
because my God held me in his hand and swore to preserve
AMEN and further up and further onward into the journey,
and if God should decide that in this life, I must lay it down so others
may live, so be it, dont weep for me, for I shall be dancing and dining in
His presence!
God bless
Troy
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