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Jun 25, 2006 19:09

Well I'm back from Servants. Please pray for me. I have an extremely hard decision to make very very quickly.

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Look here, you people who say, "Today or Tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit." How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog--it's here a little while, then it's gone. What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." Otherwise you will be boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. Remember it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.
James 4:13-17

Lord I was wrong. I thought I knew what you had planned, but really I was just making plans for myself without asking you, thinking that would bring me happiness. Thinking that was what I wanted, but now...all I want is you.

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Jeremiah 29:11

I know I can trust you. I know I can take this leap and you'll lead me. I can't see where I'm going, but you can. You see everything.

It's important to note what God does promise and what He doesn't. He promises we can be certain about who He is, and we can be certain about our relationship in Him, but how the journey plays out is full of uncertainties. One of the wonderful things about living in the realm of uncertainty is that you find the journey with God is full of suprises. Faith is all about character, trusting in the character of God, being certain of who God is and following Him into the unknown. For a lot of us the most spiritual thing we can do is to do something--to turn right when we want to turn left. Somehow we all know that to play it safe is to lose the game.
-Erwin Raphael McManus

I'm tired of playing it safe. I know that isn't what you have called me to do. You're calling me to step out into the unfamiliar, to stop waiting for a clear and obvious answer. Lord I still don't know where you're leading me, but I have the peace and assurance that you'll be with me every step as long as I keep taking steps. If it is your will, I know you will make a way.

No reserves.  No retreats.  No regrets.
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