Five-year-old Prayers…
Posted by Steve Crawford on June 23, 2009
Five years ago, when I started at TMC as a freshman, I realized that it was kind of a “new leaf” in making friends… the friends that I had had from high school, some of which I had known since kindergarten, were going to different colleges. Only a few people that I was close to were accompanying me to TMC. I had been told that the people you meet in college could very well become your life-long friends, and thus I prayed and asked the Lord, “God, please bring me friends who will always point me to you.”
Five years later, He’s still so kindly and graciously answering that prayer. Last week, my friend Robby Wisnewski came out to stay for about 5 days. Incredible blessing, one I wasn’t even looking for but now see I desperately needed. I met Robby the day I moved into C-Dub, and he just offered to help me move in my stuff (he was serving me so much, I thought he was on SLS– nope! just a nice guy). We’ve been friends since and I got to be his roommate my junior year. Choosing to room with him was probably one of the only good decisions I made that entire year (oh, how we learn from our mistakes).
This past week spent having Robby out here, especially coming off the Resolved Conference (which was all about Sin in our lives), has injected a new vigor in my life to keep fighting the good fight. Robby’s leaving for two years of overseas ministry in a few months, and just talking with him about life and death and heaven and hell and the fact that we are one day going to stand before a Holy God and give an account concerning how we’ve lived our lives and what we’ve done with the days He gave us has been incredibly sobering.
If anything, my passion to live a holy life characterized by love for God and admiration for Him, with proclaiming the glory of Christ as my goal, and recognizing that I am completely dependent on the convicting, regenerating, and comforting work of the Holy Spirit in my life has only increased… and that did not stem from me, but from the kindness of a good God Who is far bigger and greater and terrifying and lovely than I realize… but I want to know Him deeper.
I am so thankful that He still answers 5-year-old prayers.
