This month here in Cambodia we have
been teaching English to elementary aged children in Phnom Penh. We begin our
day at 9:30 and usually end around 11:30 after we serve the children there
lunch of rice and soup. After that our ministry is completed for the day. So we
have been having a lot of free time and that has made me question if this is
where I am supposed to be? Did God really bring me to Cambodia to have me teach
for two hours?
Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the
plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity
to give you a future and a hope.”
The thought of what’s next is
coming up a lot now as we approach month 8 out of 11 everyone is begging to
wonder, where am I going to live, where am I called by God, what’s his next
step for me? I don’t know the answers to
those questions not for anyone else and certainly not for me. Yet I have a
strange peace about it. I’m not worrying about it, I don’t know why I’m not,
only to say that God has given me a supernatural peace about my future. If God knows the plans he has for me, and I’m living
my life following his direction then why should I worry. Why should I stay up
pondering searching scripture for what is to come. As long as I live in his
presence then I know whether I turn left or right God will be the one moving
me. I’m reminded of another verse.
Isaiah 30:21 “Your ears will hear a
word from behind you, “this is the way walk in it,” whenever you turn to the
right or to the left.”
I am reminded of John the Baptist,
who preached in the wilderness wearing a garment made from camel’s hair, who
ate locusts and wild honey. I mean if there is a guy in the bible who believed
that he was where God wanted him to be and did not worry about whether he was
in the place he was suppose to be it was John. I mean can any of you tell me
that if you say some guy along a trail while you’re out hiking in the
wilderness and you see him sitting there eating a locust and some wild honey
the first thought would be, “This guy is right where he is suppose to be.” Are
you nuts no you would think he has a few screws loose. Yet when you continue in Matthew chapter three
it doesn’t say a few people went to him to be baptized no it says “Then
Jerusalem was going out to him, and all of Judea and all the districts around
the Jordan.”
If we walk with the Lord where ever
we find ourselves then we will be exactly where we need to be. What is more reassuring
than that? I may not know what I’m going to do or if ill live in Washington,
but all I want is to be walking in the presence of the Lord, and be totally
filled with his holy spirit. Whatever that may look like Lord allow me to walk
with you in everything allow my steps be orchestrated by you in heaven.
