I endeavor to live my life daily from a place of peace in the
abiding presence of the Lord. He is the
prince of peace and as I allow His peace to supercede my cares, I can usually
be calm in my emotions. So when I awoke
one morning and felt very unsettled, I knew something had come to me during the
night that was upsetting my peace. It is
not difficult to discern in the natural how challenging our life of faith can
be. We stepped out of a comfortable and
secure lifestyle some time ago to follow after the Lord when he beckoned us
from our hometown in the east to a whole new life in the west. That change in our life is a huge place of
distinction in our walk of faith. So
when I awoke the other morning with this unsettledness in my soul, all kinds of
thoughts were running through my mind.
Thoughts like “You were crazy to leave your comfort and security”, “You
should have planned better for this season of life”, “You have been here for 12
years and nothing has changed”, “You were foolish to do this.” On and on and on the thoughts went until I
stopped and said to the Lord, “What is going on?” The response from the Lord sounded like this,
“The foolishness of man is often the wisdom and will of God whereas the wisdom
of man is folly to God.” So at 4:00 AM,
I got up to go to my Bible and verify what the Lord was saying.
I Corinthians 1:25 – “This foolish plan of God is wiser than
the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of
human strength.” I so appreciated the
latter part of verse 25 because it addressed the weakness and the vulnerability
I sometimes feel in this place of faith in which we live.
Since we have entered into this new year of 2014, I have had
other opportunities to feel shaken in my faith.
But know this, anytime we step into a new season of the calendar or a
new season in our lives, we have an enemy who is going to huff and puff and try
to get us off course. It is time to turn our enemy back at the gate, at
this threshold to a tremendous year, knowing that eye has not seen nor ear
heard what the Lord has in store, but truly He is about to reveal it to us by
Holy Spirit. So stay on course, stay on
task for the glory of God is about to be reveal in unprecedented ways in your
life and mine.
