people have been asking.....

"so....how did the sermon go?"

My response........"it didn't."

You see after a week and a half of busting a hump to study a brand new passage and spending all day Saturday working out a sermon outline I woke up Sunday morning feeling like I had been hit by a mack truck.  The flu had settled in and I wasn't going anywhere.

Disappointment.....bewilderment.....heading towards a losing of heart.

When things don't quite seem to add up.....I find that I'm tempted to become frustrated.  "and that's exactly what the enemy wants," I was reminded....."so you will start to question....and feel defeated."

Sometimes things happen that we just don't quite seem to understand....that's when I have to lean on the truth that "all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according His purpose." Romans 8:28

Notice the emphasis on His purpose.....not mine.

Well.....I still have one more assigned Sunday to preach...November 21.  So that said I will hang onto the outline....I know I have the right passage and who knows I may end up ripping this outline apart and constructing a brand new one....we shall see.

For now...I'm  leaning on His purpose...and that He works everything for our good.

What are you leaning on these days?