Each element of our journey is laced with a message from God to our hearts, that if we will slow enough to listen to, as we work through the particular challenge of that season, we will hear Him, like in Solomon’s days of temple building, in which no noise was heard in the building, say something so quiet, so nearly imperceptible, but soooo important.

Often I find His Word come to me, in such quiet and unofficious ways, that hours later, I turn around within myself, look back, remember the bend in the road, on the way home from work, where His Word arrived, and I realize I heard it but didn’t, and now realize it was Him.

Only a continual commitment to be poured, as David describes it so eloquently, will cause that pure Word He is speaking to be heard, and when that Word has been heard, then as it was in the beginning so it will be again…new life will emerge.

Lord, help us to be willing to be poured out and to listen…

There was a time when I expended every effort to try and gain financial stability. I knew I was called to the ministry, therefore a life of uncertainty, and I wanted to remain in control, to gain the upper hand on life. Because God is faithful, the finances came…but the peace never did. The bigger my nest-egg got, the more I worried about it.(checkout 1 Tim 6:10!)

I now truly believe that change & uncertainty are not the cruel villains we fear them to be, but are a working of the grace of God to deliver us from the peril of religion - everytime we set something in concrete it becomes a tradition (or law). And Jesus said by our traditions we nullify His Word, the very Word that would save us! (Matt 15:6)

Why do we fear change? I testify with ease that every time I’ve had to shed a skin of the past - my job, my church, my circle of friends, my precious investments, my career plans - the same move has been accompanied by a far greater freedom, even deliverance, in God.

Like the Laodeceans of Revelation 3, we westerners so often seek to attain security thru money so that we too can “have no need of any thing” and be immune to the terror of change. (No wonder so few of us are going to the ends of the earth.)

Therefore the pursuit of wealth is not a work of greatness but rather the coward’s compulsive scrambling to build a buffer zone of false protection around himself against uncertainty. Bin there.

Bring on the uncertainty, I say! (…through chattering teeth). I want to ride the wave of God, entrusting an unknown destiny to a well-known Father and at the end of it all have nothing to show for it, if need be. I want to know I’m alive and be steeped in needs for God to gloriously meet, racking up testimony after testimony as we live on the edge of His divine purpose!

For though I know Change scares the hell out of me - the only thing I’m truly more terrified of is the lack thereof.

davo.