It has been a while since I shared anything on this level. I have written a couple of stories but have not published them. Sometimes things are to be held for an appointed time. Yes, an appointed time.
Here we are at the end of another year and the world isn’t looking the better for it. It is a tumultuous time. One that has people on edge.
For me, this has been a year of travel and not just a little bit. I’ve gone half way around the world and back again. I’ve spent more than 2 months thus far in hotels. But it has been a time of blessing and fulfillment. At the beginning of the year, I was traveling by car, then by train, and finally by flight.
How the year started, is not how it will end. Things are in an accelerated pattern. You have made one step after the other and it went from a crawl, to walking, to running and finally flying. Isaiah said it in a similar way, “But those that wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles, They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint (40:31).”
This year was spent making leaps and bounds over the previous ones. Going places that I had only ever dreamed about and then in a moment, it was back home. It seemed slow and fast all at the same time. Plans were made. Then waiting. Then traveling. Then back home. As fast as it happened it was over. Piece by piece it came together and all in the Lord’s fashion.
I’m looking back now as we approach this season of gratitude with celebrations and realizing some of the things I have to be thankful for. I always told the Lord, “here am I, send me,” but then I would place some condition on it, because I was learning… ha ha! Those conditions, weren’t met. Just my relenting and willingness to go. I went just as I am, covered in His Grace and Goodness. Humbling it twas and is.
But I am so grateful he called me to do it and like Paul, “yet it was not I but God who was working through me by His grace (1 Corinthians 15:10).” His grace is more than enough!
Stepping through this progression, I feel the resolve to share another part of what I see. The foreboding of the impending storm. The restlessness that we have and are still facing. The unsettling feeling in the pit of the stomach that keeps the sleep from being so deep. Yes, many of us can surmise that something has been brewing for a while.
“Our God approaches, and he is not silent. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him (Psalms 50:3).”
I want to tell you. A moment is on the horizon where the storm will all at once be upon us. In the blink of an eye it’ll be. Havoc. Thunder. Chaos. Lightning. Shaking. Blitzes. Yes, there is one coming very very soon. Do not lose sight of it or it will catch you unaware. Live life, but stay tuned in to Him, Jesus. Where you are called to go, He will always provide a way. Don’t live in fear. Live in hope. Live in faith. Live in love. And when the storm arises, know that He is in the midst with you and will keep you. This storm will release the New Glory!
But even though it tarries… do not grow anxious, but wait for it. “If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed (Habakkuk 2:3).”
Godspeed, The Journeyman
Ps. As I sat down this morning to converse with the Lord in prayer and reading of the Bible, I felt compelled to share some of what I have been seeing. Be good! Happy thanksgiving!
Psalms 50: 3 NLT “Our God approaches, and he is not silent. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him.”
Isaiah 40: 31 NLT “But those that wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles, They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.”
Habakkuk 2: 2-3 NLT “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others. This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.’”
John 14: 27 KJV “I am leaving you with a gift— peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.”
1 Corinthians 15:10 NLT “…yet it was not I but God who was working through me by His grace.”