I have been thinking a lot lately about who I am, where I am
at, and what I am doing. I guess that is natural after stepping into unfamiliar
territory in my new role in Georgia. It is a step of faith because I don’t know
what lies ahead entirely and there are many things that are uncertain about
even what I do know.
I do know that I am supposed to be here, that God has very
specific purposes for me in this time, and that the work I am doing setting up
ministry hosts for the World Race is very valuable to the Kingdom’s advancement
all over the world and here at home. It is the details that are challenging.Where will the money come from, what is next, am I doing everything right..?
I gain new appreciation every day for what Abraham did in
Genesis by just packing up his whole family and leaving at the word of a god that
to that point was really unknown to him. His faith was incredible. I am being
stretched by stepping out into a place that I at least know of at the word of a
god who has been faithful to me in the past and that I know a whole lot about.
I think it was that Abraham was just that hungry for the
something out there that could fulfill him that he wasn’t getting, even from a
place where he was wealthy, his family was safe and he had just about anything
he needed. When God spoke to him his heart must have leapt because it
recognized the voice of its creator who was the only one who could fill it up
full.
That is what is making this season so worth it for me. I am
here in a place where I know what I’m doing only for the next few months, and I
still need quite a bit of support to come in to even do that, but my heart can
rest in the fact that God brought me here and He didn’t do it to hurt me or
make me worry about things. He has a purpose, even in the facts that I don’t
know. I am learning a new level of dependency on Him all over again and the
more I learn it, the less the world and its downfalls can threaten me with.
The reason I can have comfort in this is because I know who
God is, and I know who He says that I am. I am His son, who he cares for, part
of a royal priesthood, one of his saints. Now I am not saying this in any kind
of arrogance because I did not, and cannot do anything to have earned these
things. Like the apostle Paul, if I boast, I boast in the fact that God created
me to be these things and Christ accomplished them for me with His death and
resurrection. Because I know that
I am rooted in what no man, or circumstance can change, I can go forward in
faith that what ever happens will bring me life and life in abundance.
