Well, all I can say is that the last 2 hrs of my night has been quite reflective. It’s amazing how we so easily forget just exactly WHY we are here. Bottom line I have been in such a season of turmoil and un-rest. Wondering if I am in the right place/wrong place/ listening to the right people – You know sometimes we can get SO distracted and not even realize that we are losing our focus and passion for the very thing that God got my attention for!
I had this whole elaborate plan for my life in my head. It was going to have all the steps I imagined to a significant life. Ha! yea right…
And then a very wise young man said to me “look at Joseph, he was thrown into a pit, abandoned and sold by his family into slavery and in jail for quite some time before he became king.”
I imagine that it was not in Joseph’s grand plan to have all these things happen to him. In fact, when they did.. He probably had every right to freak out.
Sometimes I think God just wants us to calm down! Stop worrying about how and why it’s all gonna happen and just keep the main thing the main thing.
I went through a box of letters and cards I received over the years tonight as I was cleaning.
In the box was a letter form a very good friend of mine, Jess who reminded me 2 years ago of the tragic situation in the Middle East which has broken my heart for quite some time.
As I read the card again tonight I just cried and cried…THIS is what I am all about! This is why I am here! And I cannot forget that.
In the card she wrote:
“Dear Mika,
At Colour 2007 Lisa Bevere spoke a message that resounds within me today; especially when I think of you. She implored God about the abuse and violation of women in the Middle East. And He replied:
‘DO YOU NOT SEE THAT MY CREATION SHAKES AT THIS VERY MISTREATMENT OF MY DAUGHTERS?’
God is fierce, ardent and so very passionate about His daughters. Lisa suggests it is no coincidence that earthquakes occur in such countries.
Job 38:12-14
‘Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?’
God has formidable plans for you; strategies that make the enemy shake in his boots. Tactics that will take ground for the empowerment of these women.
Do not let this cause you fear, but to rouse your heart and excite it to keep marching forward. The enemy has no weapon that can out-wit or out-strengthen your conviction.
Never forget the desires He has purposed for your heart (our father).”
Wow, thank GOD for friends like this, a true friend to my destiny, and someone who so brilliantly encourages me in that direction. I am excited, and at peace about where God is taking me. This has nothing to do with anything that I am capable of so I guess this is how I am learning to let Him take full control.
My heart just wants to see all of this come to pass, but His timing is so much better than mine. And His ways/thoughts are higher than mine…
- Selah -
