Wisdom From a Friend

What up peeps!?  I just wanted to share with you all (if anyone actually reads this) a story that a friend of mine just shared.  My dude Jack did Summer Staff with me at Saranac Village this summer and he just posted this on our facebook group.  I hope he does not mind me sharing this I just found it awesome.

"Hey everybody, the coolest thing happened today and I felt the need to share it here. Right now I'm at a secular leadership building camp in Utah with 47 other guys my age and I'm in a small group with 7 other guys. This evening, after the days events, we were given a pamphlet to read that would guide us to search ourselves and think about our traits and how we can become better leaders and that sort of thing, and we were given an hour an a half to go off by ourselves and have basically a "20 minutes" type of experience, but a secular kind. Well, afterwards we met back up in our small groups for "cabin time" and talked about what we discovered and experienced. This one kid who has been kinda quiet (yes I'M calling someone else quiet) so far opens up and tells us that he started thinking through himself and what he wanted to become and as he thought more and more he felt the urge to take his socks and shoes off and wade out into this mountain river next to him. He said that he had never been baptized but that he had considered himself a christian at one point in his life. After he was standing out in the water he said he just dunked his head completely underwater and prayed out loud to God for the first time in years and in that moment recommitted his life to God. Keep in mind that nothing we have been studying at camp has been related back to God, nor have we even so much as mentioned gospel or the bible. But, through all of this soul-searching, the one thing he saw in it all was his need for God. I got chill bumps as he was telling us this and it pumped me up so much to see God work through something that wasnt even intended to further His kingdom. Anyways, I hope those of you who read this enjoyed it. His name is Nick and I'm sure he would really appreciate your prayers."

I just think it is a really awesome story.  It shows how God uses every opportunity possible to further his Kingdom and that he does not need me or you to do so.  It is humbling to think that but remember that he does use us in the most unique ways so we simply need to open our lives to him and be a light.  You never know what he will do!