Mark Jones - In His Dust

Brian taught on ‘Shortcutting’ this past Sunday at Re:Hope. One of the challenges was to consider whether or not there was any “Have it now” lures in your life at the moment.

I think this is one of my biggest ‘issues’. When I see something I want… I rush straight in. I don’t wait, I’m not patient, I don’t consider the consequences, I don’t consider the people around me, etc.

I’m beginning to understand what God want’s for me, doesn’t involve me necessarily running full steam ahead as soon as I have an opportunity or a target. In other words - Shortcutting. I’m tempted to do things ’my way’ instead of ’God’s way’.

I guess this is one of those things that I’m growing in - learning through mistakes more than anything. I guess it’s not about what I want, or about my ‘timescale’, and my attitude of ’wanting it now’ - even if I feel ‘this’ is part of God’s plan, but about what God wants of me, and where God me to go, and the ‘route’ God wants me to take to get there.

I think it comes back to faith in God as well. Faith in what he’s doing, and what he’ll continue to do. I don’t think God starts something with the intention of not finishing it. I think it’s more a case of… once we see what’s happening… we jump the gun, take the reigns and go off ‘our way’.

I’m a work in progress…