Selling God Short
I’d say there are times in most of our lives when our brain gears just can’t stop turning. And I’d say there are times that this turning often leads to the stirring of our heart. I’m not talking about what appointments you have this week, or the grocery list you have to make. I am talking about ideas or random thoughts that spark passion in your heart and soul even as miniscule as it may be. You know what I am talking about… you’re driving down the road or laying in bed and on the outside you are alone and relaxed but on the inside it’s a different story. It’s stirring…
Some would say it’s stress, the prices of a hectic day and you finally have found some alone time- maybe a doctor would even prescribe you some medicine to slow it down… But is it possible that God finally just has you alone? That maybe these aren’t just ideas and thoughts but rather God has finally got some time with you all to Himself?
As I was in my third hour or so of a six hour drive back from Lexington, KY this week, I was having one of these moments. Idea after idea, thought after thought.
There were so many that I didn’t know what to do with them. Thankfully Laura who had been sleeping in the passenger seat awoke from her slumber and began to make a list of “to-do’s� for me. She even provided a listening ear as I tried to make sense of what was going through my head.
I talked about plans for future ministry, worship, and evangelism. Things just kept coming to me so quickly.
As I began to verbally process idea after idea, thought after thought I was hit with the “idea� that maybe these weren’t just “ideas� but revelations from God. God revealing to me plans for my life, or those around me.
Here’s the deal:
I know that I ask the Lord to speak to me, yet I rarely give him the time of day. However, He seems to always find a way to come through.
I am always asking Him to lead and guide me.
I seem to meet people regularly that are seeking a plan, or a course of action that meets their passions and desires. They are at point A, have an idea of point B, but no direction on how to get there.
So am I selling God short? Is He attempting to speak to me or through me, and I simply cast these ideas and thoughts aside as just that, or an unrealistic dream?
This week I am buying a pocket sized notebook. I will be writing down random “thoughts and ideasâ€�. Let’s see what happens…
