This weekend…

…I will be back in Adelaide for the first time since I left there at the end of 2008. I'll be there for the Equip Conference, a Christian training event run by the Evangelical Fellowship of Anglican Churches.

I'm a little apprehensive about going back, as coming back to Melbourne from overseas made me feel almost as if I'd never left (being so busy didn't hurt, either, of course :) I don't know why this suddenly comes at me; it happened just before I left Adelaide to come back to Melbourne after Christmas.

Whatever the case, it's bound to be a valuable weekend of sound teaching and great training, and a chance to see some old new friends for the first time in a while :)

Enough?

Something that has really been weighing on my heart the past few weeks is that of sufficiency – what does a life need in order to be full, to have everything it needs?

The obvious, "Christian" answer ("just love Jesus, He'll give you everything you need") always seemed rather trite – I knew it to be true, but I always found it difficult to act that truth out in my life.

Something that I really found during my trip away was that God was showing me that He was enough, that all the things I wanted to retain control over had to be handed over.

The problem (?) is, there's once you pass that point, truly hand control over, there's no going back. You're committed to finding joy in everything that the Lord shows you and takes you through, even if it doesn't fit with the plans you've supposedly laid down.

The biggest struggle, then, is to keep from second-guessing. It really reminds me of the Israelites – they'd seen God's amazing hand in delivering them from slavery in Egypt. They'd seen plagues, miracles, and signs worthy of being passed down through the generations as examples of God's power and faithfulness – but as soon as things got a little hard? They wanted their "control" back, to feel like they were in charge. They needed constant reminders (and more than a little discipline) to remind them of Who they depended on for their very existence.

My prayer is to be able to echo these words of Chris Tomlin:

All of You is more than enough for all of me
For every thirst and every need
You satisfy me with Your love
And all I have in You is more than enough

You are my supply
My breath of life
And still more awesome than I know
You are my reward
worth living for
And still more awesome than I know

All of You is more than enough for all of me
For every thirst and every need
You satisfy me with Your love
And all I have in You is more than enough

You're my sacrifice
Of greatest price
And still more awesome than I know
You're the coming King
You are everything
And still more awesome than I know

More than all I want
More than all I need
You are more than enough for me
More than all I know
More than all I can say
You are more than enough for me

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Uni Bible Studies

One of the things I'm doing as part of my involvement with Swinburne Christian Union this year is co-leading a Bible Study on Monday mornings. I hope to post a more fleshed-out version of what I'll be going through each fortnight on the Monday or Tuesday after I've taken the study. First one is this week, hope it goes smoothly.

Now, to actually finish writing it…

New year, new blog

…So last year's effort to blog properly didn't really work very well. That's ok, more learning curve. I'm hoping that having everything hosted and managed for me will make it easier for me to just write, and ignore all the fiddle.

We'll see how it goes…

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