I Once Was Lost...

"I once was lost, but now am found..." I love that old hymn (yes I did say old). While I was not lost in spirit, I felt lost in direction. I spent the last two years in the desert, or so it seemed. It is amazing to me how hindsight is so much better. Is there anyway we can have hindsight before the foresight? I just need things to make sense. These last two years did not make any sense to me...until now. All the junk I dealt with over the last two years has prepared me, both spiritually and emotionally, to move into this tremendous arena of life and ministry. However, had I known it ahead of time it would not nearly have had the effect it does today.

The key to dealing with things we don't understand is simple; quit trying to understand. God is a debtor to no man (as one of my friends loves to remind me) and he doesn't have to explain anything to us. And if he did, what good would it do us? We would move along with the knowledge of how things would turn out and no faith would be required. "Check your brain at the door" is a common phrase that would apply here. We would live in stupid simpleness and never have to strive or trust for anything. There is no growth there.

We don't like the not knowing. I have said it a hundred times over the last two years. "If I could only see where this is going I would be ok". That is a retarded statement and an ignorant one. If I had known where this was all leading I would have ignored the process of stretching and growing before me. I would never had arrived at the place I am now with the development I now possess. Faith is required of a Jesus follower and it is never utilized by people who have it all figured out. It is a sad thing for those that have so ordered their life that faith is never required. Because the bible says that without faith we cannot please God. We must learn to operate in the realm of the unknown so we can grow in the realm of the supernatural.

Jeez, I haven't written in a while and feel like I could go on and on. I think I will curtail this for now so that I can write again.