"It's time to grow up" Love, God

Living in College Station, surrounded by the community of believers I am lucky enough to call my friends, I have become spoiled by the experience of being a Christian. God moves often and he moves strongly when one is surrounded by people who are open and willing to allow God to use them to minister to other people. Barriers to the movement of the Holy Spirit are low, which allows for an environment of powerful ministry. This is part of the reason why College Station has been so comfortable for me. However, as I have mentioned in one of my previous posts- we are not called to me comfortable. We are called to move. We are called to go forth and make disciples of all nations. 

Living in Berlin, I am starting to feel the affects of being cut off from the body of Christ more and more. I have been frustrated here in Berlin because, I have come to realize, I have become accustomed to the experience I have in CS. In a way, I have been spoon fed spiritual potency over the past two and a half years. In College Station I am almost completely immersed in spirituality. So now, as the human will of most Berliners disallows the Holy Spirit to move as freely as it does in College Station, the experience is not so strong. I am not saying that God does not move here, quite the contrary. My experience in Berlin has only shown me that I need not rely on the experience, but on the promise. In a way, I feel like this summer God has softly been showing me that it is time to grow up. In one short year, I will be graduating and moving on to only God knows what. I will not always have the opportunity to be "spoon fed" spirituality. It is time to grow up, learn the promises of God in a deeper, sustainable way, and allow The Lord to prepare me to enter a broken world. 

I encourage each one of you to take a look at your life and see where you might be relying too much on the experience and not enough on following Jesus.