I know it has been a while...

I know its been a long break since my last post...but I feel I have a new set of topics that I feel God has put on my heart to share. But tonight I just wanted to give a bit of an update on things...

Well it is 2 weeks until I will be setting of for China on my very first mission trip as I have mentioned previously. I will be traveling to the city Sanmenxia where I will be serving in a Orphanage. I will writing a post that more comprehensively covers my trip in the next couple of days.

Apart from that I have been working hard on a series of different projects. I am back at the gym working hard (be prepared for a scattering of gym related posts to come haha). The AFL Premiership season commences next week with the season opener being the mighty Blues up against the hapless Tigers. Cant wait!! The only downside to being on the mission trip will be that I miss 3 weeks of AFL...how will I cope? 

But something I wanted to quickly share tonight was something that I have been thinking about quite a lot lately, in relation to planning what Im going to do in the coming months. Sometimes I go ahead and try and map out my future, without taking in to perspective what God wants. Sometimes I worry so much about whats going to happen and what I am to do.

But it is times like this I remember the passage in Matthew 6:25-34 where Jesus says the following:

²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
 ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The verse that stands our for me is verse 34 where he says do not worry about tomorrow. The fact is as long as we continue to put our faith in God and live our lives pleasing to God and following his word, we have nothing to fear and nothing to worry about.

So while I know I get a bit stressed over current situations, be it work related or personal life related, I always remind myself to live a life with faith trusting our loving father in heaven.