Jason Vana: Becoming a Better Man

Greater Than You Know →

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<p>It’s difficult for us to see the impact we have on people’s lives.</p>

<p>Sure, there are those we can easily point to and see the impact we’ve made.</p>

<p>The friend who came to Christ after your conversation.<br />The coworker who is now going to church because you invited him.<br />The young person who is beginning to like how God created them because of your mentoring.</p>

<p>Those are easy to see. We can point to the fruit in their lives and know the difference we’ve made.</p>

<p>But what about the people we pour into once or twice and don’t see again?<br />What about the friends who don’t change right away?</p>

<p>That impact is much more difficult to see.<br />But it doesn’t mean an impact wasn’t made.</p>

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Greater Than You Know →

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It’s difficult for us to see the impact we have on people’s lives.

Sure, there are those we can easily point to and see the impact we’ve made.

The friend who came to Christ after your conversation.
The coworker who is now going to church because you invited him.
The young person who is beginning to like how God created them because of your mentoring.

Those are easy to see. We can point to the fruit in their lives and know the difference we’ve made.

But what about the people we pour into once or twice and don’t see again?
What about the friends who don’t change right away?

That impact is much more difficult to see.
But it doesn’t mean an impact wasn’t made.

Continue Reading…

Uncovering God's Call →

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The number one question I get from college students and young adults revolves around discovering their dream or calling.

They don’t know how to determine for sure what God has called them to do.

It’s true for many of us.

We expect God’s call to come through some burning bush.
We look for it written on a neon sign in the sky.
We’re convinced it’s some complicated process divorced from our desires and passions.

Discovering God’s call is anything but easy.

It takes years of prayer.
Decades of trial and error.
Forcing yourself to do something that deep down, you don’t really want to do.

Or does it?

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Uncovering God's Call →

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The number one question I get from college students and young adults revolves around discovering their dream or calling.

They don’t know how to determine for sure what God has called them to do.

It’s true for many of us.

We expect God’s call to come through some burning bush.
We look for it written on a neon sign in the sky.
We’re convinced it’s some complicated process divorced from our desires and passions.

Discovering God’s call is anything but easy.

It takes years of prayer.
Decades of trial and error.
Forcing yourself to do something that deep down, you don’t really want to do.

Or does it?

Continue Reading…

Waiting on the Cloud →

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“Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.” - Numbers 9:22

I’ve never been a big fan of waiting.

I know God’s timing is always perfect, I know He always has my best in mind, and I know everything He allows to come into my life or be delayed coming into my life has a reason behind it.

I still hate waiting.

I’m a doer, an achiever. When I set my mind to something, I want it done as quickly as possible. And when I get tired of waiting, when I’m frustrated with how long the process is taking, I am tempted to do something stupid.

Like take matters into my own hands.
Find my own path.
Throw everything I’ve been waiting for away and try to circumvent the process.

I can’t stand waiting.

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Waiting on the Cloud →

http://www.jasonvana.com/waiting-on-the-cloud

“Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.” - Numbers 9:22

I’ve never been a big fan of waiting.

I know God’s timing is always perfect, I know He always has my best in mind, and I know everything He allows to come into my life or be delayed coming into my life has a reason behind it.

I still hate waiting.

I’m a doer, an achiever. When I set my mind to something, I want it done as quickly as possible. And when I get tired of waiting, when I’m frustrated with how long the process is taking, I am tempted to do something stupid.

Like take matters into my own hands.
Find my own path.
Throw everything I’ve been waiting for away and try to circumvent the process.

I can’t stand waiting.

Read more and join the conversation!

Light Wins →

Light Wins →

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Our world is dark.
Very dark.

Turn on any news program and you’ll hear of murder, rape, drug addiction, child abuse, terrorists, bomb threats, and shootings within our country, and that doesn’t include the sex slavery, child labor, and countless deaths caused by curable diseases happening throughout the world.

And it seems no matter what we do, things are only getting worse.

It can become easy for us, even as Christians, to focus on the darkness - to believe that darkness is winning in our city, our state, our region, our country, continent, and world; to see darkness rising in our workplaces; to think there is nothing we can do to bring true change.

There is a battle between light and dark, and it looks as if the darkness is winning.

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Walking with God →

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After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22

The author of the book of Genesis does something interested here in Enoch’s genealogical listing. If you read through the genealogy from Adam to Noah, you’ll notice a pattern:

Some person lived X number of years, and had their first born son. After this person had his first born son, he lived X number of years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, this person lived X number of years and then he died.

Enoch’s listing was different. Everyone else lived - from Adam to Noah, even those who were considered great men of God, were written to have lived a certain amount of years.

Enoch walked with God.

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Walking with God →

Photo Credit: Martin Cathrae(Creative Commons)

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22

The author of the book of Genesis does something interested here in Enoch’s genealogical listing. If you read through the genealogy from Adam to Noah, you’ll notice a pattern:

Some person lived X number of years, and had their first born son. After this person had his first born son, he lived X number of years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, this person lived X number of years and then he died.

Enoch’s listing was different. Everyone else lived - from Adam to Noah, even those who were considered great men of God, were written to have lived a certain amount of years.

Enoch walked with God.

Read more and join the conversation!