How to live life and still pursue God

I have found the seasons of change and unrest to be the times full of excitement and belief that God is big. I have also found times of normalcy to be an opportunity to get complacent and forget why we are here. How do you live in an exciting vibrant relationship with your creator in the midst of normal. We can’t always create change and unrest to give us that feeling of dependency on God. In fact it isn’t even dependency on God if the part that excites us is the uncertainty itself. That is simply adrenaline. What comprises true dependency on our creator? What does true trust look like? I can’t answer that for you, but I think I am beginning to get the idea for me. Satisfaction in being where He has asked me to be with a willingness to be anywhere else.
Satisfied getting up, helping the kids with school. Cooking, trying to figure out when stores are open. Taking the baby to the doctor, walking a few miles. Trying to learn more of the language communicating with the immunization nurse. Satisfied just getting up for the normal every day.
Willing. Not falling so in love with being here that I wouldn’t go anywhere else. Not being convinced I am indispensible where I am at. Willing to stay even when I don’t think I am needed. Looking to hear from the Lord any time He wants to speak. In His word and in prayer constantly. Open to correction, change, moving, staying, discipline. Being more concerned with receiving from Jesus than what I have to say to Him or others. Willing to be a student of language and culture. Willing to not have an answer to “what are you doing in Brazil” other than “learning” “obeying” “loving”
What has God called us too, why are we here. The same reason you are.
1Corth 15:58Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
2Corth 5:16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin^a for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Eph 1:3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he^c predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9And he^d made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. 11In him we were also chosen,^e having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. 15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit^f of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 20which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Our purpose is the same here as it was in Albany. It is the same purpose of all Christians, reconcile the world to Christ. Our inheritance is shared with Christ. Our inheritance is people. We need to live every day with the expectance that God might use us to reconcile someone else to Him. God is in the business of healing our hurts so that we might better help heal others.
Our purpose is to glorify God with our lives by pointing others to Him. God has chosen me, the weakest, most unlovely creature to glorify him. To use me to point others to him. Not by a big ministry, or fancy words  but by living every day for His glory.
Dwell on that before you leave your house. Dwell on that when you are doing the mundane. Every action or inaction is an opportunity to give God glory that He may use to show His character and love to another. Open yourself up, like I must, to what God may want to do with you each day. We must find our satisfaction and wiliness in glorifying God not in the action He is asking us to do.
I am encouraged today. I find I can see Jesus in front of me again. I hope it encourages you. God loves us. He wants us to know that love. He wants to reconcile us to Him that we might point the way to others. All of us. Not just missionaries, not just pastors but the Church.
2Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
We are all pastors, missionaries, ambassadors of our Father, all of us.