"Do you remember the last time you saw a child with his or her parents in a store, and one parent says, 'Don’t touch anything' and right away the child reaches out for whatever is in reach? I have realized that I am like that child when God gives me truth or direction. I am always asking God to reveal his path for me. But when God says 'follow me', I immediately try and go a different way.I currently work on campus. As I am no longer a student, I wasn’t sure how I could be best used to help live fulfill the Great Commission here at WSU. As I talked this through with a Cru staff member, he asked if I would consider coordinating many of the operational needs within the movement. Right away, as the child did, I said 'no'. I felt like that didn’t align with the things that I believed I needed to be doing this year.
As the next couple of days passed, I was reminded of something that same staff member had shared with me. He realized God was calling him to something specific but refused to do it right away. However, he said that he was reminded of how he would challenge students to take steps of faith because he felt it was part of God’s plan for them and realized that was the same thing he was being asked to do. So he accepted the calling of God. I realized I was in the same seat: God was calling me to be obedient to his call.
There is a passage of scripture that has hit close to home in this process. It comes from Matthew 6 as Jesus speaks about serving God or serving other things. For me, it speaks of being obedient to God or rebelling against Him. Matthew 6:24: 'No one can serve two master. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.'
I want to choose the Lord...and obedience to him."
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