Is it safe?
That is a question we ask ourselves a lot on the WR, but it’s usually about food or water. God has really been challenging me with this question the last few weeks. A job that I had is open again, and I know it would be easy for me to go back to it. It’s safe. It’s secure. It has everything I need, but do I want it? Thinking about it made me so distracted that I needed to refocus on God. I began to fast to see where God was leading me.
On the first day, two of my teammates came up to me and mentioned another opportunity that would continue to push me to serve. It is something that I thought about but never considered for myself. However, it brought excitement and a smile to my face just thinking about it. Now I really needed direction.
During team worship that night, we listened to an hour worth of songs, but the only thing I remember hearing are these words, “If you make your life more risky wouldn’t have to strive so hard at following me. Your life is so safe. Your life is so safe.” Those words felt as if they were burned onto my heart. I had just said the first job was “safe”…and now this. God was definitely speaking.
Now to trust. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Where ever we go, whatever choice we make, God is there; God will work…but we have to trust. I know no matter what decision I make God will do big things. Am I willing to risk it? To risk the security of the world for the security God gives me. Yes, I think I am….are you?
(The words are from Jason Upton’s free worship in the song-Burning up the Sky.)
