Say What? { Day 227 }

Have you ever had the feeling like you need to do something?  Something way out of your comfort zone?  Something that you didn’t want to do even though that feeling kept coming back?

I started getting this feeling last winter about writing.  I journal… but for ME.   I started to get this feeling that I needed to start to “blog” on my 365 picture a day blog.  This is my second year doing a picture a day blog but my feeling was that I needed to write about my faith and about Jesus.  Say what?  You, God, are asking me to do what?  At least, I think You are asking me to do this.  It is coming to me through people, through messages at church, through my devotional time, etc.  It was all being confirmed to me through these other signs.  But, I like the picture a day.  I’m way more comfortable behind the camera…not out in the open expressing my faith.  Really?

 

Jesus whispers His guidance.  Jesus is interested in me?  He wants me to drop what I’m doing and follow Him.  

BUT…I can’t write because I’m not a writer.  I can’t do this.  I can’t share things like this!

                I can’t    --->    God Can!

                I’m not   --->   God Is!

Then I get this….  “IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU!  Drop what you are doing and follow me.  I equip the called.”

It takes courage.  In Acts 1:8 it says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Jesus asks us to look at everything through His lens not ours.

So I let go and I let God.  Because God will never have a chance to show up in our lives if we try to control it.  

I began to write my first “written” blog.  I surrendered.  I wrote and wrote.  As the week went on things were coming to me like never before.  After putting my first one out there….I started getting private messages of “ thank you for doing this” and “me too” and “I love it because it encourages me” and “I want a deeper faith with God”,etc.  But let me be clear…this is not about me.  It isn’t about me at all.  This is about Jesus!  This is about listening to God and becoming like Jesus.  Every week, I have a hard time hitting publish.  Every week, I say…”I don’t know.”  But you know what…Jesus had courage. If I am going to imitate Jesus…then I need to have courage!  And every time I proclaim His name to everyone—He will proclaim my name to the Father in Heaven.  That’s a good thing.  

What are YOU going to do?  What is God asking you to do?  Lysa TerKeurst has 5 questions you can ask yourself if you think your hearing from God…from chapter 2 in her book called, “What Happens When Women Say Yes to God”

“If what you are doing pleases God, then even if what you thought you heard from Him wasn’t His voice, you still please Him.” ~Lysa TerKeurst

Jesus is the cornerstone.  In Acts 4:11-12 it says, “For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”  

I need to be foundational!  

So my “Say What” question to God became, “I Surrender!  I’m Yours!  I’ll be a Witness!”  Because Jesus is the cornerstone and His name changes my name by saying YES to Him.  

“We need not fear what our obedience will cause to happen in our life.  We should only fear what our disobedience will cause us to miss.”  ~Lysa TerKeurst