I’ve had that moment. You know the one, where you’ve heard from God, you sought council & you look at the faith actions in your life and think (even scream out loud,)
“ARE YOU SURE!?!?!”
Every piece of comfort that is inside my being tells me to run the other way. Every sound and safe concept tells me to curl up where I have been and just stay there. I have a really good thing going. I have the greatest opportunity to serve at an amazing church (www.palmvalley.org.) Every day I wake up and love doing what I do. I work with THE BEST TEAM EVER, some of the most creative people I have ever met, let alone have the privilege to lead to serve families. I have a lot, and therefore in my human minds eye it seems foolish and irresponsible to take the step I am taking.
Then I sit with God, I tune in to what Holy Spirit is doing and I know, it would be foolish and irresponsible for me not to take the faith step that He is asking me to take.
There are lives that are hanging in the balance. Lives that need to hear that Jesus loves them. There are people that need to see Him in a tangible, real way. And for whatever reason, for such a time is this, what seems to be foolish & irresponsible, God will use to bring glory to His Kingdom.
“I don’t think the way you think.
The way you work isn’t the way I work.”
God’s Decree.
“For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not come back empty-handed.
They’ll do the work I sent them to do,
they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.”
-Isaiah 55:8-11 (The Message)
So if His thoughts are not my thoughts & His ways are not my ways these steps in my own perspective look foolish & irresponsible. Faith is anything but foolish. Walking with God is anything but irresponsible. As I jump out of my comfort and into his calling, I pray that I will be reminded of His perspective, His glory & His kingdom. That when I have moments of, ARE YOU SURE, I will confidently walk out my faith steps to my God journey no matter how foolish & irresponsible they may seem.
What about you? What faith steps do you need to take in this season?
<3
Ash
