The Call to California

This was not on my grid. Which is good reason to not try and "figure" out the will of God. Because of circumstances in our lives, we assume things. When CRI asked us to help them move to California, I thought sure, but we aren't staying. I still don't know what we're doing, but I'm finding little affirmations, that this may be the place for us in this season. All could be written off as "circumstantial evidence" I suppose. But God is Jehovah Sneaky sometimes....if he had showed me this I would have probably went back home, opened the dog shop back up and went back to shaving poodles. This is a God sized work. In other words, impossible. Maybe that is what I sense as the difference between Jamaica and this House of Prayer in the desert. One is normal humanitarian work, done all over the world, but this? This is Noah stuff. This is building an ARK in the desert. I don't even know what to call, THIS. It would seem that It is all that has been stored up in my heart for 16 years, wrapped up in one big package. Actually...I think it's more than what was stored in my heart...an allusion He hinted at 16+ years ago when He burned up all the empty selfish works I was doing and offered me a blank contract, one with His dream instead. I think I don't understand fully what the vision was He gave me yet, and I don't think my heart is anywhere near big enough to do what this appears to be developing into. That's a good thing..that means it didn't come from my heart, and I'm not capable of pulling anything off myself. Yes indeedy....Jehovah Sneaky. Ya gotta love Him!

Ninevah

I'm thinking of Jonah....how God sent him somewhere, giving him a word that if he would intercede, and warn people, that Ninevah would be saved. So essentially....Jonah runs away because He knows what's going to happen. He would go to Ninevah, preach repentance and give the warning, people would repent and disaster would be averted. Sounds like a formula for success. Except, that knowing God's mercy, Jonah, I think, knows he's going to look like a fool. He's going to say, "tragedy is coming unless you repent." And when they do...guess what? God relents and blesses. So people will say..."oh, nothing was going to happen anyway. Your crazy." But it will be justified in the end. We don't need to worry about what people think or say. What matters are lives in the balance, and being obedient. So if God says, "go to Ninevah!" Go. And if He says, "build an ark in the desert." Well.....start choppin' wood....