A Thought

If we only look for what we want instead of what God wants to give us, we will end up short-changing ourselves and missing out on a lot of life.

What a wonderful thought- and challenging one at that. I heard it in passing at a meeting the other night. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

It was the word if wisdom that I needed to help me make the final decision to change jobs. Up to that point it was all about "Me!" and how "I!" loved what "I!" was doing and how great a job "I!" was doing and how "I!" would miss it and "I!" would feel lost and how "I!"....

I think you get the picture. I had gotten into one of my tunnel-vision modes even though it was clear that this was more than just a job offer. (Re-read yesterday's post!) I had lost sight of how much more there is to life than I can even begin to imagine and if I allow my narrow wishes and desires and visions to be all there is, well, I'm going to miss a lot.

That is an amazing insight. It is behind the story of the workers in the vineyard on Sunday. The all-day-workers were stuck in their vision of "fairness" and lost sight of God's vision of justice and grace which offers them even more than they realized. To get lost in my comfort zone, to be unwilling to take a chance and move to something relatively unknown even when being led by God- that shows an incredible lack of trust that God has something God wants me to be doing and I have no reason to know what or why.

It is what pilgrimage is all about. It is the journey of faith. It is life lived on God's terms, not mine.

Praise God for His amazingly powerful grace.