Proverbs 3:4-5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path!
It is never easy to trust God when you can’t see the road ahead or when you don’t know why you are going that way.
Even before Joel passed away, I was feeling antsy about what I was going to do with my life once Nate would leave for college. Many ideas would go through my head every day, but nothing seemed to make sense. There were (and still are) so many things I liked to do, yet no one thing stood out as the right thing.
About 6 months after Joel passed away, I began to experience a deep desire to intensify my ministry calling. Although I was in an administrative position at a church (Life Assembly, Mt. Juliet, TN), I felt like there was more I was supposed to be doing. Through a series of events, I starting feeling the “urge” to move to Cleveland, Tennessee. By June 2011, I knew I had to go. I didn’t know why, I just knew God told me to go to Cleveland. So, I turned in my notice at Life and moved!
During that summer, God worked out so many things to make it possible for me to move. My condo was rented by some of the greatest folks I know and I was able to rent an apartment in Cleveland that was perfect for me and Nate. In September I was able to get a temporary position so that I would be able to pay the bills.
In November I received a call from Foursquare asking me if I wanted to apply for a position in Concord, North Carolina. After praying, I knew that this was the move I needed to make, and I knew that it was the ministry call that I was waiting for. What I didn’t understand was why I needed to make the trek by way of Cleveland. God could have easily sent me to Concord directly from Nashville.
At Thanksgiving, Nate and I were talking and preparing for the move, and we discussed the “why.” He said he knew why I have moved to Cleveland first. It had been a really rough semester for both of us and we were together to support each other. So it was exactly where I needed to be at the time!
Trusting is never easy if you can’t see the road ahead. But God knows the road and when we trust Him, He takes care of all the details, big and small!