June 18, 2010
Faith Filled Friday: What's holding you back?
12:00 AM | 
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Maggie
God is doing something BIG in my life. I don't know all the details yet but He is revealing things to me. It started with my dear friend's journey to Africa. My daughters and I diligently prayed for her every day leading up to her trip. Once her travels began we gathered around the table each day at breakfast to read her blog chronicling every detail of what she saw. I tried to read her daily posts out loud to the girls, but it was difficult. Some of it was just too horrible for their young hearts, but more often than not I could not read through the my sobbing hearing her account of the people who live their lives day in and day out in such extreme poverty. The more I heard the more paralyzed I felt, the more sickened I felt at everything I have that they do not, the more hollow I felt, the more wasteful I felt. Wasteful with my money, wasteful with my time, wasteful with my energy, wasteful with my life. All of these feelings hammered at me, until I felt nothing but empty.
And then God stepped in. First a dream in the night and then just a crazy idea spoken out loud and then a passionate conversation between friends and shared with spouses. Now here I am (we are).....on the edge of something HUGE. I can't turn back now.
I don't know all the details yet, but this is what I am sure of. I know that I SIMPLY MUST allow God to fully vent everything He has planned for my life. I CANNOT be happy with the American Dream when 40% of the world's inhabitants struggle just to eat every day.* I CANNOT continue to live in a life so full of STUFF THAT DOESN'T MATTER that I have NOTHING LEFT FOR THE STUFF THAT DOES.
"He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
from tending the sheep he brought him,
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them." ~Psalm 78:70-72
Is He calling you to something today? Are you answering or is something holding you back?
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* When Helping Hurts, Fikkert & Corbett
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4 comments:
YES! I've been praying for an opportunity to serve in my church and not only did He give it to me, he made me the leader - yikes! :) Now my prayers are to help me to lead the group and have more of Him and less of me.
My dear friend, i am so astounded by how God has moved. It is like waiting for bday presents, you know they are coming, you are just not sure what they will be quite yet. I think it is also amazing how He is working it out in our families! Oh my goodness, I am so excited!
What a great post! YES! I know exactly what you mean! I loved reading about Kristen's journey too... changed all of us I think... I have also been feeling very restless, like God is opening a door for me to serve Him. I am trying to hear Him and know where that might be. Thankful for your post today.
Melanie
~ melscoffeebreak.blogspot.com ~
Beautiful.
So glad we aren't alone on this wild God journey.
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