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If you didn’t know I officially have started a job in youth ministry as a Director at Wellspring Community Church in Ruskin, Florida.

It is an honor to be part of such an amazing team that loves recklessly and authentically pursues God.

The journey to get here has been one for the books. It was amazing growing at Bayside College of Ministry for 4 years.

I have so much respect and honestly I am at a loss for words for what that college has done for my life. It has been amazing learning and growing in the craft of communication and leading while having my time being there.

Learning how to step out of something which all I have ever known for the past 4 almost 5 years is difficult. Extremely.

Learning that what God builds through you is less important, then what He has built in you.

We can become wrapped up in that very thing we have come to know that it has become part of our identity, and it shapes our steps. Even the way we talk to people or respond to situations.

It is important to become rooted where you are, but it is not good for you to create that season as your very life source.

Your Life source is God, not the season you are in.

When we root into something so deeply in a season it will be extremely painful when the Lord shares with us to move and spread our fruit to a different area. That is why we must be rooted into Him in the season we are at. Not in the location, or position we have in that season.

Drowning

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The season of the youth director, I have learned to already jump in head first, and not to put my feet in and see how it feels.

(Thank you, dear mentors.)

There are moments in life when we feel like we are drowning, and I can tell you this; Ministry is the same my friend.

I’ve been in ministry for 5 years now, and officially being a paid staff member a few weeks. I understand some of the feeling of drowning at certain moments in life.

You feel like you’re gasping for air, trying to grab onto anything to take you back to the surface where it was once comfortable.

You get stressed out like never before then you get reminded, oh hold up I am human…

You have friends to pull you back to reality, and honestly it is a breath of fresh air.

Yet He has not called us to be comfortable, but to jump in, and learn how swim in the depth of His love and the so called “chaos” around us that we may come to the surface not to stay there, but to take a breath and swim down even deeper then before.

Breath

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Now we may really enjoy floating on the surface of everything God has called us to be. We’ve enjoyed talking about our dreams to other people, talking about everything we have vision for to our friends.

We enjoy talking about the lives He has called us to change and even impact. We love to sit at the surface of everything floating and just talk.

Yet we just float there.

On the surface. Afraid to jump into everything…

I challenge you. Jump in.

Yes, there will be moments in it that you feel like you’re drowning, But I promise you, you’ll learn how to swim and breath.

We can’t any longer be okay with floating on the surface of everything God has for us.

It’s time to jump in, head first.

Get to the point of drowning, because that is the point that we finally stop leaning on our own strength and wisdom and finally learn from Him how to swim down, and through His strength, wisdom, grace, truth and Love.

You’ll never accomplish what God has created you for if all you do is float at the surface talking about it.

Jump in. Drown. Swim. Breath.

Pray constantly over the next step, and He will bring peace for your next step.

Then once it comes. Jump in for it.

Trust me. The water is great.

Joseph III