Just Start Walking

I was slightly encouraged, maybe a little more than that, by a portion of a sermon I caught yesterday as I was channel surfing through the radio. The pastor was talking about the faith of Moses, as God directed him to go.

I want you to go.
Ok, where?
Don't worry about. Just start walking.
Any particular direction?
I'll let you know, as you go.
No seriously... what's the destination?
No, seriously... just go.
Can't we map this out first?
I have the map. I'll tell you what's up, as you go.

This is our conversation with God. How it wasn't Moses' conversation, is a mystery.

Amazingly enough.

And yet, so often, it's how God continues to work in our lives. We look at decisions based on how things will look in five years. We make them based on what's gone wrong in life over the past five years. We make decisions based on the factors we know weighed against the factors we don't know. Meanwhile, I see God simply breathing. Waiting. For us to simply start moving, so that He can direct our feet and illuminate our path.

Thus, like Moses, I admire missionaries and their hearth. For surely, they have or are tempted to have the conversation that we would have had if we were in Moses' sandals. But they continue to go and step out and move, even as God directs, one step at a time.

So, pray, this #missionsFriday, that God would strengthen the faith of missionaries. May the continue to move in obedience, under the prompting of the Holy Spirit and the direction of God. Pray for wisdom in the decisions that they do face and need to make and may they not get caught up in the knowing versus unknown debate, whereby the miss the opportunity God has for their lives and ministries. May they continue to walk in faith as God leads and moves. Pray for discernment as they seek the face and will of God; to hear His voice and understand His heart in a greater dimension than every before.

That we would hear and respond,
Rather than hesitate and debate.
Moving in faith as God moves upon our hearts.
For the glory of God
And the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC

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