Crossroads...

Have you ever felt like you needed a change in your life? Maybe you knew you needed it but didn’t know if you had the strength to follow through with it. Has God ever given you a little nudge to see if you would stand the test? Well…that’s me, I am standing at the crossroad of my life right now; it’s a place between the past and the future, also known as the present. I have to decide if what I have always known and done is how I want to continue to live. Thus far it has sustained me and gotten me by but lately I find I’m longing more for God. I’m also longing to live fully in the body of Christ. Up to this point I have been so focused on certain people God has placed in my past I somehow lost focus of everyone else. I need fellowship with people who share the same passion for Christ that I do. People who want to know Him and make Him known. Not people who just have knowledge of him but those who lay down their own life to live for him. We as the body of Christ are to reach the lost and broken to show them God’s love and to do that we must know Him and love Him deeply.

I imagine myself standing on a large cross; I’m at the point where both pieces of the boards meet. I can’t go back, nothing will ever be the same and I can’t live in the past. Yet, I don’t want to stay stagnate moving from left to right. I must endure on this journey to keep rising to the top. I want to keep growing spiritually to be closer to God. Life is a battle; there are moments of peace and time for war (spiritual). Each season offers new challenges and if you chose to accept your assignments from God you will reap blessings beyond belief but it may cause you to have to stretch beyond anything you have ever experienced and hang on in the tough times, when faith is all you have to hold. God never said life would be easy, he did tell us he would never leave or forsake us.

Sometimes I don’t think we know exactly how broken we were until God starts a new process in us to awaken and refresh us to all he is, what he has for us and all he wants us to be in Him. When God has called you to move you must wait for him to give you instructions. What he tells me may not be what he tells someone else in the same situation as me. Be cautious of your own heart and what it wants versus what God wants you to do. The mind is a tricky place when emotions come into the picture. It’s easy to forget all the bad times when your mind is only playing a tape of the Good Ole days. Remember God is moving you for a reason with a specific purpose in mind, he knows the Master Plan…we don’t. Trust him, have faith and hold on…his adventure is just beginning.