Did you ever feel like Gideon?
Maybe your faith is bigger than my faith. Right now, I feel like Gideon, hiding in the winepress.
A couple months ago, a friend from church showed the congregation a video about the world race. My spirit leapt inside of me, and I wept. You know that feeling? when God is stirring something unexpected, hopeful and terrifying inside of you? I felt like God said to me “I am calling you to something deeper.” So I applied for the world race. I was advised to go through some counseling to work through some on going issues. I was accepted to the July 2015 trip.
Now here it is two months later and I am terrified. I feel like this is what God was calling me to do, but now all these fears and doubts have crept into my mind. Some family have planted the doubts there as well. Fears like “you won’t be safe” or “you can’t leave your job! you will have nothing to come back to!”
So here I am…blogging. Hiding in the winepress. Here is the thing that you may already know and I am just realizing with the striking of these keys. God was the one that met Gideon in that winepress. Gideon was indeed the weakest and least likley candidate for the job. However, what made him great was God working through him. So here I am, starting up this blog and moving forward with the process of fundraising for the world race. I feel like Gideon, but I trust that God will meet me here. Our hiding spots are never a surprise to Him. What are you hiding from?
