Summer has come and gone!

It is amazing how fast time can go by. I feel like it was just last week that the summer was  just starting here at Bair Lake Bible Camp. Now we are coming up to our last week. God has been doing some awesome things here this summer. Lives are being changed not only with the campers, but also within the staff. This summer I got the opportunity to be the Aquatics Director. It has been quite a journey, with many ups and downs, but I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. I find it easy to let myself get caught up in the work of it, and the go-go-go, and forget to stop and see the power of what God is doing.


The theme that has been ringing through my life this summer is summed up by the words of the Apostle Paul in the book of Romans. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)


This verse is such a great assurance for me no matter what I am doing, or how I am feeling. In the good times, I remember that this is God working for my good, and it is evident. When the hard times roll around, my view of God's plan can get blurred really quick. It's comforting to rest on this truth, that even though I may not see it now, God is going to something great through this situation. 


I have been praying a lot about who God wants me to be. It is awesome when God provides His word for you, and it is so clear and evident. I have been making my way through the new testament, and I recently read through the book of Philippians, and I didn't expect to get anything new out of it because I have read it so often. But as I was reading God revealed to me a passage the spoke right to my heart of exactly who He want me to be.


"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:7-14