Drawing near...

Kinda distracting myself right now - I should be packing as I'm heading off to the AOG state conference tomorrow morning for the week. It's part of my college course to serve (which in my case means hosting as I've done for the duration of my time at college) at the conference which is being held up at Port Macquarie. Although I've never been there, it sounds like a pretty beaut place - despite the fact that one of the chefs at work insists it's where all the old people in NSW move in order to 'die out'... ...he's a nice bloke eh?! Ha!

Anyway, a week of doing what I love in the mornings and evenings (incidently hosting is responsible for the majority of the incredible relationships I've been fortunate to make since moving - Rebecca, Vanessa, Jana, Phil, Judy, Macfarlan, Jared to name but a few) with a bit of beach time in between can't be too bad surely? Noice...

So I must say that since my last post, my outlook on life has improved a great deal. In fact, I'm very much on a spiritual high right now. On Thursday morning at Hillsong Men God completely shook my world. I won't go into detail for the sake of time but basically I ended up going forward on an alter call as I recognized that my relationship with God was far from what I (or God for that matter) desired it to be. I know that perhaps God has allowed me to take a step back in my intimacy with Him over the last couple of years simply because of everything else that He has been doing in me, but increasingly of late I have been missing the deep level intimacy that I used to have. And so, as hard as it was to stand in front of many of my peers I knew it was time to set things straight and recommitted my life and my heart to Jesus. And you know what? The Biblical promise of God drawing near to us if we draw near to Him has been a vivid reality ever since... God is SO gracious! I love Him!