I Am Making A Choice To Make Myself Available For HIM



"And I heard a voice of the LORD say 'Who shall I send, and who will go for us.' Then I said 'Here I am send me.''
Isaiah 6:8

A couple of weeks ago I heard someone talk about availability. He wasn't talking about the availability to go to coffee with a friend. He was talking about what happened when he decided to make himself available for God. This person talked about the change that happened in his life when he decided to make himself fully available for God. This really got me thinking about my availability with God. 

Yes, I an really involved in furthering the kingdom now, but it has not always been this way. Before a few years ago I wouldn't really look to God for direction, I would decide to do things on my own. I never seemed God's guidance when making decisions. I would do ministry type things because my friends or that cute boy in youth group did them. It wasn't until I didn't have those people to fall back on that God really got a hold of my heart. 

My freshman year of college I realized that no one was going to be holding my hand telling me what was right and wrong anymore. I don't have to fit the mold of a youth group kid anymore. I could choose what was going to be my normal. I thought this would be a good time to be a "normal" college kid and do the college kid things. I thought drinking that beer or going to that party would be so "cool". I knew where the party spots where the "in" crowd" hung-out were. It seemed cool for a while and I felt happy, until the hangover kicked in. Then I felt depressed and sad. I missed the people who where in my life before I made these choices. I knew something was missing and that was the one thing that I decided was not as important to me anymore, because I was in college now. 

That thing missing was my relationship with Jesus. I had put it on the back burner, because I thought trying to be popular with the "in" crowd was more important at the time. It wasn't until I was laying in in my dorm room, at 4 a.m. after a night of partying that I realized what I was doing. I was using the fact that Jesus forgives me to justify the lifestyle I was living. It was at this moment that I felt God tell me that he created me for a purpose and it wasn't getting drunk every weekend.
From this moment God put amazing people in my life to help me better understand what it looks like to have a deep personal relationship with Jesus. I found opportunities to make myself available for HIM. One of the ways I made myself available was by becoming a Young Life Leader and starting it on my college campus. God took my availability and did some amazing things. 
As I go into the third school year of having YL on my campus. I can't help, but to reflect on what God  has done when I have whole heartedly made myself available for HIM. God has put his magic touch on the intentional moments that have happened when I have made myself available. 

Going into this year all I want to do is be available for God in and out of Young Life. I can not wait to  see God's finger prints all over everything. 

I am choosing to make myself wholeheartedly available for God!

I encourage you to just try and see what God can do when you choose to make yourself available for kingdom work!


P.S  No Matter what, I want to encourage, pray, and befriend you. I am on social media as @406_jourd on Instagram and @jourdynMack101 on Twitter, give me a follow and feel free to DM me anytime. If you ever need prayer or someone to talk to email me, jourdynpuppies@gmail.com, don't laugh it is from fourth grade and I stuck with it. 

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