If you lead me...

These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. (1 Peter 1:7)

I'm about to take a step that I'm more than scared of, I'm frightened...but why? Why is that when we are about to take steps I mean leaps of faith we curl up in fear and tremble...why is it that tears stream down my face and my heart skips a beat? I need to trust God and not just the christian to do of saying "Trust God" but the real "Trust God" or I'll end up in a ditch cold and hungry wondering why I didn't just take the step of faith...So now that I have you on the edge of your seat I guess I'll tell you what kept me awake last night and what brought tears when I arose this morning..."I'm quitting" What you ask? My job at the engineering lab. A good paying job, with flexible hours, easy load of work, free printing, silence most of the time, and great people. There I told God last night and I''m telling you this morning so in stone it lies...

Last night I asked for a message that would guide me and show me some direction because I felt like my world was being tossed in a bowl like a salad and I couldn't take much more of it...I need the light to shine on my path and I needed something in my life to stop spinning...God never dishes out more than you can handle and so right when my last finger was breaking loose from my hold, God caught me...The message was in my mind a message about making yourself available and open and humble so that God could guide and direct you where he wanted you..."If you lead me Lord I will follow, where you lead me Lord I will go..." (Invitation Fountain by Michael J. Pritzl)...so he did and now I will follow

It only makes sense to leave you with a verse that kept me hanging on yesterday until the evening when God had a message for me. It reminds of when Brandon Pullen told us in New Orleans about when he was looking for housing for us. John Meyer told him to look and if nothing found by Friday, come back and we'll go somewhere else this summer. So come that thursday night no housing was found and no leads where clear but faith kept this brother praying and barely, but still believing. And sure enough God provided the next day. Oh how easy it would have been to just quit Thursday night. Oh how easy it is for us to quit right before God answers...right before God shows his glory...Hang on there dear saint whatever God is pressing on your heart or whenever you are at the point of just giving up, don't it could be the night before...That person on your heart that you've been pleading with God to be saved maybe tomorrow the angels will sing or maybe you are trusting God with a provision or something and there doesn't appear to be any hope that anything is on the way just maybe at your doorstep it will lie or maybe the next phone call is the answer...

Cast your cares on the LORD
and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous fall. (Psalm 55:22)