It gets real when you are in the process of typing up your resignation letter to hand to your Director. It’s the last piece of “option” I have.
I have $3,552 left to raise to reach $10k and 11 days to raise it and only $11,262 until I’m fully funded. My faith somehow tells me that this isn’t too big for my God.
“Can you wait until you reach $10k to turn in your resignation letter?
I could but what good would that do? I won’t allow my faith to linger in doubt or the fears of what ifs. When I said “Yes” to God I said no to all other options. People have always told me to make sure to
1. Leave your options open
2. You need to have plan A, B, and C… in case things don’t work out
3. Not to put all your eggs in one basket.
4. Not having options isn’t wisdom but having a plan is.
The crazy thing when I searched for all those statements in the bible…I couldn’t find it. Nowhere did I read about Moses or Noah, David or Solomon, Issac or Daniel, Joshua or Abraham having options or a plan B to the things God was calling them to do. So why should I?
What I did find was that
1. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen. It gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Heb. 11:1
2. It is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Heb. 11:6
3. For we live by faith not by sight. 2 Cor. 5:7
4. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
5. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalms 32:8
My parents would always ask, “If your friends jump off the cliff are you going to jump to?”
And my answer, “If Jesus is my friend that I’m jumping with, then yes I’ll jump.”
I’m All in. I am completely jumping off the cliff of comfort and security with no other options. With 27 days away from launch if my faith makes me look like a fool, I pray God would make what looks foolish to confound the wise. I pray that others would see my journey of faith as a reflection of what God calls us to do daily, I pray that because of my faith there would be people who would stand alongside me and partner with my financially to live out what God is calling me to do. And I pray that whoever is reading this would hear His voice and not harden their hearts to what He is calling you to do.
Faith doesn’t makes things comfortable, it challenges comfort.
Faith trusts in a unknown future to a knowing God.
