Scriptural Foundation:
But Moses argued with the Lord, saying, “I can’t do it! I’m such a clumsy speaker! Why should Pharaoh listen to me?”
Exodus 6:30 New Living Translation (NLT)
Reflection:
When the Lord put it on my heart to start a blog, my first thought was yeah right. Not because I didn’t enjoy coming along side someone and loving on them, but because the thought of social media exhausts me. Everyone having their own opinion, whether right or wrong the medium just seems like a whole bunch of people yelling in the same room. Not in the same words that Moses used, but I basically told God, what could I have to share. People relate to heart ache and pain, I didn’t have any of those things. Can I tell you something, don’t ever question the maker of the universes, He knows what is best! In the year or so, that past after the Lord put that on my heart, I started unpacking my life….not to say that I am done, but there was a lot of stuff that pushed down or set aside.
The more time I spent seeking the Lord, His vision for my life didn’t get any smaller to match my view of things, if anything it became bigger. It took my brother-in-law being put in prison to get me to start writing. I made it a point to e-mail him as much as I could, especially in those early days. The Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance Matthew 25:36 –I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. I stayed with it for his year sentence. It warmed my heart that I could minister to him, and his appreciation for my consistency gave me the nudge I needed to at least start setting up the blog. Now social media had not changed in the time that the Lord gave me this assignment, but my mindset that manifested from my time encouraging my brother-in-law, changed me.
I wish I could tell you I have it all figured out, but I live and walk out the scripture Isaiah 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. I heard someone say one time “Delayed obedience, is still disobedience.” I don’t feel any more equip today then I did when I first got the call, but I have the resolve that with the Lord all things are possible.
Seeking Revelation:
Grab your notebook:
- What big visions or dreams do you have on your heart.
- Ask the Holy Spirit for direction.
- What little steps can you make today towards that vision or dream?