Have you ask God what He is in the process of teaching and how to use it effectively in order to change the world around you? Do the walls currently surrounding your heart hold a thought, memory, or comfort that causes you to refuse God access? Although, I will forewarn you, allowing God inside the walls we build as humans will require a willingness to change our thoughts and actions. Not limited to singular items but may include leaving comforts that we call ministry and accepting God’s desires and directions not listed in the GPS we possess. This journey of change will be the goodness of God revealed though our circumstances as a beacon of light to a broken vessel dazed and confused on the oceans of life. As we accept the positon of servant to the true master in all areas of life items you feel necessary for the ministry of God will be laid to the wayside in light of His all-knowing ways and our limited means of thought and action.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
This new road will not be found on the GPS we have been utilizing for direction. Therefore we must allow all stops, turns, and detours be directed by God and the time of arrival will be perfected. The ministry in which we have the honor to participate will be so much the fuller as we allow God to ultimately direct beginning to end.
With our hearts in unchartered territory yet dependent upon God, peace will abound and consume the pain inflicted by the change thought unbearable. This very place of servitude will be our birth into a world so much greater than we ever could imagine or hope for and in firm contrast to the deceitfully dirty hearts contained within our beings. To place into perspective setting free a ministry my wife and I poured heart and soul into I see it as giving birth to a child. A baby is conceived and grows within the womb as comfort abounds, nutrients provided, and temperature regulated. At this stage the baby is loved beyond believe of the parents. Yet, to be loved even the more, and provide the gifts the baby has within itself there must be a time of discomfort, crying, and pain. I know if we were to have knowledge as an embryo we would not want to exit the womb and thereby forfeit the wonders in store throughout life. This is not unlike a minister that must be moved forward to experience the wonders of God in every waking moment. No doubt comfort in flesh and desire not of God will lead to the death of ministry and the ever evolving wonder of God in our lives.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Ps 37:23 KJV
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Prov 3:5-6 KJV
God Bless You All,
Brett