One Step at a Time

For the life of me I couldn’t think of anything to write about this morning. Or let me rephrase that – I thought of many many things to write about, but had the hardest time feeling strongly about one of them and coming up with a post.

I stared at my computer for some time. I walked away from it. I glanced at the clock, realized I’m headed towards late. I poured myself another cup of coffee. I read everyone’s facebook update, I listened to the storm, paced the house, stared at a squirrel hiding from the rain, and still got nothing.

I then decided to jump in the shower with the concrete and absolute plan to put off writing the blog until after my morning meeting – for which I am now late.

Then it occurred to me that I hadn’t really prayed about it. I write the blog primarily as an act of worship to God, yet hadn’t really stopped to think about what He would have me write.

So I prayed.

Then I waited for a lightning bolt of an idea to appear in my brain, or at least for an angel to appear in the steam of the shower while my words hit the clouds above. But I remained angel-less while I got annoyed that other people “hear” God speaking to them, while I just slave away, inch by inch, trying to clean out my ears and settle my heart so that God’s perfect word can penetrate my flighty heart.

Then I sat on my computer and started typing while my “aha” moment quietly but surely cemented itself in my thoughts.

So many of us wait for God to appear in big ways. We look for lightning and thunder and tsunami’s of His presence. We wait for earthquakes and appearances, and a “Word from the Lord”, when all along, His word is right here, near us, in us, not louder than a quiet whisper.

Worst of all is that we postpone our duties, and delay our actions and stop in our track while waiting for Him to at least say something. Then we get aggravated and disappointed and annoyed that others seem to have a “one way no dropped calls” connection to God while we got stuck with verizon..

Abraham’s servant needed to find a wife for Isaac – asap. Where do you start looking for a wife for your boss’s son? Surely this was an opportunity to panic and fear. Surely this was his chance to run, lest he get fired for not coming up with results.

But we read Genesis 24 and we see how simple, how straightforward, how easy Abraham’s servant made it seem. He went to the obvious place. He did the obvious things. And he met the obvious one. When asked about his journey, his response was clear cut: “while I was on the way, the Lord led me.” (Genesis 24:7).

No complications. No fits of frustration. No attitude and threats like “God, if you don’t provide a wife for Isaac this second, I’m going to quit.”

He just took the next step and did the obvious thing.

No thunderbolts, no hurricanes, but only the still small voice of the Lord leading in little ways, one moment at a time.

One step of faith at a time.

And that’s how this blog ended up being written.

One little step of faith at a time.

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