DR2012 Day 1: Reflection on Psalm 27

As we have been preparing for this trip to the Dominican Republic, Trent has asked us this question: "What is it that you want God to do in you, to you, and through you while we are there?"

Here's the reality...

There are many things I want God to do in me...I'm a wreck.
There are many things I want God to do through me...there are a ton of hurting people in the world and I truly desire Him to use me to point people to the One who heals.
There are many things I want God to do to me also...but this is scary though.

I have been spending a lot of time in prayerful reflection about not only making this trip but also on what part God wants me to play and how to play it "well".

Now, here's the problem...so much about how I have been praying and preparing has me at the center.

I was spending some time in Psalm 27 this evening and I found that David was able to capture my thoughts in words that must have been inspired by One greater than he.

Psalm 27:4
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

This stirs up my affections for my Great God and King!
This causes my soul to sing His praises!
This creates in me a great desire to press into Him!

Psalm 27:7-8
Hear, Oh Lord, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!
You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, Lord, do I seek."

Now, tomorrow, we will meet new people and will experience new things. But that is not why God brought me to the Dominican. I truly believe that He brought me here for the same reason He has me living in Royse City, and working at Community ISD, and parenting two boys, and married to the greatest wife a man could have, and serving with Gateway, and (_fill in the blank_)...

To reflect His glory...

Psalm 27:13-14
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Tomorrow, Santa Alicia...we are coming, and we are bringing chickens!

Blessings,
ZS