The Journey is Still Going

PREFACE: I wrote this on December 7 and have just now realized I never got around to posting this. So here is that post.

Hello, friends! I have had a lot on my mind lately and have felt God tugging at my heart to continue this blog I have started. This past weekend has been a weekend full of revelations into what I think God wants for me in my life. To sum it up, I took a class at my church called “Discipleship 101” which covered the church’s beliefs and the basics to becoming a disciple, and led to membership in the church. I took away a lot from the class and even more today with the sermon. The following is a bulleted list of what I will talk about in upcoming posts. I was going to cover it all in one post, but realized I had too much to say about each one. Therefore, I will make a post about each. :)

· A call to singlehood

· What baptism (immersion) is all about

· Stewardship – a process of faith

· Tithing

· The journey called life

Not only will I be discussing those topics, but I want to expand this blog to move beyond how this blog has been structured in the past. I have previously shared things I’ve learned in the Bible, and while I want to continue to do that, this has slowed me down in writing. The reason it has slowed me down is because I wait for inspiration to strike in terms of what the scripture inspires me with about singleness. Not every scripture will be able to inspire that, and that isn’t what my original thoughts about this blog intended.

I decided to look back at my first post to see what I had to say then. What I found is very interesting. The first couple of sentences say, “So what is this blog all about? Simple answer: singlehood. Complicated answer: only God knows.” I find this very interested. All along I was intending this blog to be about singlehood and every post to be about that. What I find interesting is the fact that I wrote “only God knows” and that this blog is turning into what I have titled it “A Single Woman’s Journey.” It is the title of my life. I am single and my life is a journey. God has taken me in a direction that I did not foresee. I continue to be amazed at how He blesses me and takes care of me.

Before I get carried away and ramble on, let me explain what I mean by this journey and where I feel God is calling me to take this blog. To make a long story short, I am a recent college graduate who is learning to live in the “real world” and make independent decisions. I have a full time job, my own apartment, my own car, and I live on my own. I feel that God wants me to not share solely about singlehood, but rather about my life journey and the things along the way to fulfilling His will. I am not on a journey to find a husband, I am on a journey to live out God’s will for my life. I don’t know exactly what that looks like, and I know this won’t always be an easy journey, but  I want to wholeheartedly live my life for God and follow His lead.

I want to share the journey of how I live on my own and make ends meet—this means including information about how I budget my money to live within my means, not beyond it. How to use my money for God and His Kingdom and to fully trust God with my finances. I have recently discovered that there are many things I spend my money on that are simply wants and not needs. I could be using my money more wisely. I am a thrifty person and want to be able to share tips and tricks with people that I have learned along the way and to share how eliminating many things eliminates distractions and creates a stronger desire to spend time with God. In the past few days, I have had no internet hook up. I have been using my smartphone to access the internet on a very minimal level. The only TV that I have watched has been DVDs that I own or have rented from the library. I want to live a life that is more focused on God and has Him at the center, rather than a life that has me in the center. When I am in the center, God has no control and I am doing other things before spending time with God or even thinking about Him.

God deserves our very best. I am going to begin each day in scripture and this will start before I get out of bed. I will be sharing in the upcoming days what this journey is like. I will share day-by-day in a journal type format where I discuss what happens on a daily basis. I am not doing this for myself, I am doing this so that God may use me to reach out to other people. I want to share of myself so that others may see or hear something that will help lead them to Christ and strengthen their relationship with Him. Be blessed, friends!