With Week 1 of 7 in the books and Week 2 peeking around the corner (starts tomorrow), it’s a great time for me to reflect on what’s going on here this summer.
A FUGE week is a strange one. You don’t really think about what day of the week it is (Monday, Tuesday, etc.). Instead, you think about what camp day it is (Day 1, Day 2, etc.). That became the most clear to me this morning, when I woke up and looked at a fellow staffer strangely when they talked about going to church.
In the FUGE world, we have something we call the “camp bubble”. Life outside of camp, including family, friends, relationships, and general goings on at home and anywhere outside of the camp world, seems really distant, vague, and not important to the day-to-day life in camp.
This past week I found myself distracted by things outside of the camp bubble, and its hardly ever a good thing when personal issues penetrate the camp bubble. I am the type of person who finds himself occasionally putting too much thought and concern into things outside of his control, and I have found in my experience that it often gets me into trouble, but its an issue that’s difficult to face and is one that I’ve struggled with for a few years now.
By about Day 3 or 4 of this past week this issue was really starting to get to me until I found myself reading the last few chapters of Job, where God starts laying in Job about significant and powerful He (God) is Job is not. He finishes His long dissertation with a challenge:
“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct [Him]? Let him who argues with God give an answer.” Job 40:2 (HCSB)
It’s not my business to worry about what’s going on when there are things outside of my control. Who am I to stand before God and fail to trust that He has everything under control?
“He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together.” Colossians 1:17 (HCSB)
That’s my prayer for this summer going forward. He holds everything together.
- Kyle
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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