What's Next?

The past few weeks have been a bit of a struggle for me in terms of topics. For a while everything just flowed and made sense, ever since I finished the wounds topic it's felt like I've been struggling and sometimes it's been a day to day thing, if I was lucky I had a week at a time. In addition to the chaos my life has undergone in the past few months, this is part of the reason my posting has come at weird times.

I've also been wondering what I should share. I've mentioned the book I'm working on, and so much of what I'm blogging about lines up with that, pretty much if not I'm working on school my mind is on the book, and I don't want to share too much of that yet. Then there is the issue of my personal journey with this stuff. I have gone back and forth about sharing the name God has given me, sharing the pledge I wrote and took before my brothers. Part of me wants to share it, believing it can help others gain clarity about what I'm talking about and maybe even have a break through in the area of identity. At the same time, it's a deeply personal thing, I've only shared it with one person outside of my group of brothers and the few men who have walked with me through this process. Originally that was my plan for this post, but I don't know that I'm there yet, and until I'm sure I'm not going to share that part of me.

And so now it's Friday, time to post again, and my one idea has been postponed, leaving me to write a post about what I'm thinking is next. So what exactly is my plan? Vision quest 2018 hasn't happened yet, the summer was hectic, and I was hoping to get to it next weekend but something came up and the later it gets in the year the less likely it is to happen. Maybe two weekends out, but if not I'm saying it's probably a no go this year, which I'm a little disappointed about.

The next topic of my focus is passion, but I'm only just beginning to understand what that looks like. The identity aspect took me three years to understand, own, and grasp enough to be able to communicate it clearly. If that trend continues it's going to be 2021 before you really get anything on that. So what's next?

For the past few years I keep thinking about who God is. The more I think about it the more I realize how crucial it is to try and grasp that, and it is only as we come to know who God is that we are able to begin to understand who we are in light of who He is. And that is where I'm feeling led to take this. If I ever go back into church work, highly doubting that's where God is taking me, but if I ever find myself teaching a congregation on a weekly basis I'm going to simply focus on what the Bible teaches us about who God is. After all, He's the subject of the book.

For the next little bit I'm going to begin working through the Bible and sharing what it teaches about who God is. I'm not going to commit to go straight through form Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, I plan on taking breaks as topics come to me, but I can't get away from the sense that this is where I need to take this.

It is in God that Identity is discovered.

It is in God that Passion is recovered.

It is in God that Destiny is pursued.

It is in God that Community is experienced.

It is only when we know God that we are able to begin to understand ourselves.


Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11

TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!