Purpose?

Why am i doing this? thats a question I'm sure some people want to ask me, and a question I've asked myself many times. This is my answer. Throughout highschool, things were normal, things were average, things were...lukewarm. As the end approached I had to face that daunting question, What am i gonna do with my life? As most guys do, I was thinking of something that involved money and lots of it. So I thought of furthering my education. This is what most kids are thinking of.. eventually i came to the realization that i wanted to fit my life into a nice equation. Education=Good Pay= Good Life=American Dream=Happyness. But once I saw the equation for what it was i was no longer interested, i was repulsed. Education=Good Pay=A Pursuit of Money=Average Life=Death=A waste in my mind. 


Theres this book, Dont Waste Your Life, that was given to me, in all honesty it was dry and i read a quarter of it. But i took away a sentence that changed the equation of my life. "There was this man, on his deathbed, he was knocking at deaths door, and he yelled, I've wasted it!" (paraphrased) Is that what i wanted? Is that the life i wanted to live? A life where I kiss deaths hand and right before i go through the agony of what might have been?! and God crashed my illusions in front of me. And in the very same breath He let me know that my life is a vapor, gone in the blink of an eye. When I'm dying do I wanna lay there thinking about the wasted time, the time the locusts have stolen? The time spent chasing a piece of paper! cause thats all my old equation was; paper. No, God gave me the inspiration to live a life that relied on him. No im not an extremist in the sense that i hate money. But it is not my God. God told me when I came to this realization that If i followed him, i would live a life unparalleled to the previous. That if I followed him, I could lay there dying and say, I squeezed life for all it was worth and I took every drop of fulfilment, joy, love, and happiness it would give. 


And Australia is where he is sending me. 


1 Timothy 6:17-19 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is LIFE indeed.

"What Is Tyler Doing In Australia?"

Hello everyone! welcome to my blog, which i started basically because i was told to. haha. But seriously i am doing this to keep in touch and let people who want to know what is going on with me and what i am learning. I am going to Australia on Feb 10th, I am participating in a YWAM, for those of you who dont know this is a worldwide organization that trains young adults to pursue, learn, teach, and serve, all for God, and so much more. I am going on a DTS which is a discipleship training school. basically i will be in an enviroment which is focused on one thing, knowing God and making him known. Im actually not to familiar with how its all going down but this is my attempt at it. I will be living in a house with guys doing the dts with me, each week there is a speaker that teaches us about God in a specific topic or with a specific focus, there is also individual study time, there will be chores kind of like bible camp, dishes, cleaning, etc.. the first three months i will be doing this in Australia, the town i will be in is called Maroochydore, and is located in the province of queensland and is right in the Sunshine coast. (i was sold as soon as i found out where it was). The next 2 months i will be going to an unknown location (we find out during the first 3 months) and doing an outreach. This is more of a missions trip except for 2 months, to give you a basic idea. We go to a location and put into practice what we learnt in Australia, (ill talk more about this later). And then i come home.