waiting expectantly for great things

God is crazily insanely good...
today has been amazing... I could not go to bed tonight without telling someone how great God is.
Today/tonight I had coffee with an old friend from high school. She was in town for the week and we wanted to have some 'face time'. Anyways we were catching up and i had not talked with another friend of ours in while. Anyways long story short, this friend had recently broken up with her long term boyfriend. I was surprised and got G's number from michelle and called her on my way home. Something i should tell y'all about my high school friends is that when we were seniors in high school only two of us were Christians. One by one God has been saving person after person until the non-christians are in the minority. Anyways this G grew up going to christian schools, her sister was a christian and her parents are buddist.

ok back to the story. So i call G and we talk for a while. And she catches me up on life and tells me about her break up. And then the next words out of her mouth caught me off guard. "the outcome of this is that I have been going to church and been reading these books that have caught my attention. At first i started going because of the music but now i listen just so that i can hear the sermons." what?!?!?! "the only way i could get through the day is to keep praying and praying." So we talked a little more about life and she gave this awesome analogy about her relationship that i think applies to so many other things. "You know i fly economy all the time and one day i decided that i was going to use my points to upgrade to business class. I am fine with economy class, there is enough room etc. Well I upgraded it on my flight back from England and when the flight was over i did not realize that 7 hour had passed. I never realized how great Business class was. I think that is how it was in my relationship. We were happy and ok I never realized that there was more. I never knew of business class because it was so far outside my understanding. It was more than i could imagine. The couples that are so happy so are business class. The couple that fall in love each day, i could imagine that now..." there was more she said to that analogy... but the thought that was running through my head was that maybe God getting your attention was Him placing you in business class. But i did not say that. Well it was time for me to go but i had to say something to her. i had to say that maybe this was God's way of grabbing, getting her. "maybe the reason why God had this happen was so that you could come to him." "you know 90% of my friends are christians... and if this is what He choose to make me curious to get my attention then it was worth it." we ended our conversation there.
Do you understand how huge this is? Maybe not. You see this friend was convinced that she was going to heaven because she was good. she had no need for God. But now she has a need... in all the years we have known her we could not make her see her need. It took God allowing her to fall in love, have her heart broken... and who does she turn to and who gives her comfort, but Him. And she acknowledges that fact. She needs him now. Being good is no longer enough. It took heart break to bring her to God.
You know it is so easy to give up or forget friends you have... long term friends are sometimes the hardest to reach mainly because it is so easy to not talk about Christ with them. God is changing and has changed the atmosphere of our group. people are open to spiritual talk... this is not the way i imagined my evening would end... this is not how imagined that G would start to move towards God. In fact i think i had given up on that. i know i had given up. But God had not... G and i are going to keep on talking. She sounded so sad over the phone, but sad and strong. She also sounded hopeful and moving forward. I can not wait to see what God will do with my old friend.
anyways i had to share
so excited... i am the type of excited that makes you cry. why is God so insanely crazy good like that. when we give up He does not. He had a plan for her this whole time. He had His timing this whole time. I remember being struck with God's timing a little while ago. I was reading in Galatians about Paul's conversation. And it struck me that when God was well pleased to reveal Him self to Paul He did (gal 1:15)... We wanted God to reveal himself to G in high school. Man we scammed and planned... instead he brought other people first, steph, jason, rashanda, katrina, jessica... and now he is bring G. So crazy. Don't give up, don't give up. God can save the people you had given up on. He really can do it.

Waiting expectantly for great things