“So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.”
God’s works are so beyond natural reason, so spectacular, so simple yet beautiful and powerful; that it does sometimes seems like just a dream. Peter was so sure about his coming future that he didn’t subscribe his mind that the angel of the Lord was leading him to a new future.
From the point of where I am now in my faith, it amazes me how far I’ve come from my nominal Christian days where Jesus was only an ideal and radical, self-sacrificing faith seemed only possible with self-delusion. Answers to prayer, to me, were something other people enjoyed, and intimacy with God could only be imagined. But now I know with such assurance that I’m in God’s will and within God’s amazing grace. With being here at Potter’s Field Ranch, preparing to spend six months of missionary service in another country and with a calling to be a life-long minister of the gospel, it sometimes does feel unreal. A year ago, I would never imagine myself at this point in my faith, and it’s exciting to look forward for what God is going to make of me for Himself.
Application: Though my faith is alive right now, I hope that I don’t find myself at a point where I’m hibernating in my faith with the Lord and look back at these days as the “good old days.” Again I need to be like Peter and simply follow where God is calling me. The candle doesn’t keep itself on fire, but it’s always fed by the air and protected by the person who is holding the candle. God is the Person who is holding me, protecting me, and keeping me aflame.
“A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench.” Isaiah 42:3
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