As I've moved around a lot recently I've realized in a new way how active and alive the Spirit of the Lord really is. God is in Iowa City doing some amazing stuff. The two years that I lived there I saw him not only change my life, but completely change the lives of people around me.
God is in Chicago and is transforming the city from the inside out. I met some really awesome Christians there and got to see their heart for spreading the Gospel in the city.
God is also in North Carolina moving in incredible ways. The different churches that I've been to have been filled with such great fellowship and are founded on the truths of God's word. The believers that I've met here have been so inspiring to me.
Both in Chicago and NC the majority of the population that live in those places have relocated from all over the country and world and these people have shared with me how God is active and moving in all of their areas of origin as well.
When you grow up in a small city in Iowa you can easily forget that God isn't just working there. He is EVERYWHERE. What's so encouraging to me as I think about where I want to get my first job is that there is Christian community and fellowship everywhere in the US and a lot of places abroad as well.
As I'm thinking about God's love moving here, there and everywhere it makes me think of the passage from Ephesians 3: "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
We can't even begin to comprehend how big God is or how big his love is because we have never experienced anything like it before. I'm thankful for this experience of traveling all over because I get to see how God's love is everywhere and I get to experience the BIGNESS of God in a new way.
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