Apparently, I could not choose a better title...
There can be no denying that this process for us has been, and continues to be, a ‘decision-making-process.’ After all, we have made the decision to sell our house and most of our belongings, just as we are now in the process of making decisions regarding what our new home-on-wheels will be, where we will go, and that sort of thing.
People have been asking us why we are doing this. For those of you who want to know, we are doing this because we somehow feel strongly that we should. Unfortunately we have little more to offer by way of explanation, unless you are interested in a bit of a Bible study. If not, we encourage you to stop reading here, and we’ll meet up again at the next entry…
If you are interested to hear a bit more about how we have come to make these decisions, in light of the uncertainty that forever presents itself to the Christian decision-maker, we can offer only our experience and a some scripture.
Through out the bible we are given phrases like “Get up” (Jdg. 7:15, 1 Ki. 19:5, Eze. 3:22, Mark 2:9, Acts 22:16), “Go out” (Ex. 16:4, Luke 14:21), “Do likewise” (Luke 10:37), “Seek me” (Jer. 29:13, Amo. 5:4), and “Follow me” (Matt. 4:19, Luke 5:27, Acts 12:8). These are all sending messages. No matter how we cut it, these are action words.
For us, such repetition finally jarred us into asking questions like, “how can we ‘go out’ and ‘follow Him’”? And herein lay the crux. Upon deciding that ‘yes, we should make more of an effort to “go out” beyond our comfort zone,’ we are immediately left with a harsh and sometimes debilitating LACK of holy street signs pointing the way.
Indeed, in our humble experience, long gone are the days of burning bushes, pillars of fire from the sky, and luminous stars throwing spotlights on where to go.
The other day we were reading Philippians, and in 2:12 it says that we should continue to “work out” our salvation. This too is a phrase of action. It seems to hint that there are no clear lines to follow, save that somehow we are to go and seek first the Kingdom of God – before all other things. And with this as our chief concern God will lead us as we go. He will lead AS WE GO.
How does He do that, you ask… We ask that too - - all the time!
We have no idea, except that in the last several months, as we have slowly made decisions with the bible in one hand and our lifestyles in the other, we have felt peace along the way. Sometimes after making a substantial choice we will each have a lot of joy about it, and this coupled with encouragement and prayer from others has served to slowly shape a clearer vision of what we are to do…
So for now, we’re taking it a day at a time, one small choice followed by another.
