Why?

Today was a great day at church! We have recently joined FBC Wylie and are constantly reminded of the plans that God has for us here. Isn't awesome when you can really feel like you are walking on the path God has planned for you. Our move was very difficult, leaving friends and family always is, but it was one that I felt so sure of I could not ignore it. Since Bill and I made the decision to leave Northlake and move to FBC God has really been present.
Today was one of those days when God showed up in this place. Kris our preacher was preaching about Trusting God and following His plan. He spoke of standing up for God, and isn't that what we want, to be like Elijah and be used by God to impact the world? Then WHY aren't we? What is standing in our way? Why do we let it? He made a great point we he walked us through 1 Kings 17; and that was in order to STAND Up for God we must SIT at His Feet. I loved that picture! We can not stand-up for our god unless we sit at His feet and let Him be the King of our life! WOW! I left that service a changed person!
So we leave "big church" and move into our bible study class. how can we top that...We did! Our class is completing a study on the Organic God, sounds cheesy I know, but it has been awesome. Highly recommend this 6 week study! In this session there were many great things, but at the end of the class Bruce, our teacher, asked us if we had any "Why" questions for God. Well, yeah...Duh! If you don't then what the heck have you been doing? He then proceeds to read from our study materials that if we have a question asking Why God? We should turn it around and ask Why not me? This does not mean Why not me in a selfish sense but in a Why am I here, what is my bigger purpose in all of this. I felt like I was hit by a bolt of lightening. My why questions are always about Dylan, my student that was killed in the 4th grade 3 years ago. I have struggled with Why God takes children ever since. Today I changed my Why question to Why did God not take one of my children? What great purpose does He have in store for them that I am here to prepare them for. Why did God not take me? Because He is not finished with me, my purpose on this earth is not yet fulfilled. What am I doing to fulfill it? That is the question I left with...Why not me? What a day! I am so blessed and I continue to be in awe of the amazing treasures we have here on earth. As I told Bill this morning, heaven is going to feel like this...and he said nope better! WOW! Better than this!!