Our Father may ask us to do something that seems illogical—perhaps to accept more responsibility when we were hoping to reduce our workload, to leave a position that He provided just recently, or to take on an assignment for which we feel ill-equipped. His plan might feel unrealistic in view of our age, stage of life, or health concerns. We must press forward in obedience, regardless of how impractical the request may appear.
Today's passage comes from Dr. Charles Stanley's daily devotional--his are the ones I usually do when I'm not doing Oswald Chambers for PESM. This passage above struck me because it seems to exemplify my current enrollment at PESM. As I've shared in posts on my other blog, going to PESM was not my first choice, nor really was it on my radar. But once I decided to include God in my decision about attending seminary or returning to academia in some way, He began moving me in the direction toward PESM. It's still very early in my PESM experience, so I'm still at a point where I have no idea what God's going to do with this, I'm simply stepping out in faith (as the saying goes) and following His leading.
To have obedience as the fishermen did--to walk away from everything and follow Jesus--is mind boggling; more so the faith Abraham showed when he prepared to sacrifice his son Issac in accordance with God's request. If, as the passage above discusses, He had asked me to quit my job and move to Kentucky to attend seminary, I don't know how obedient I would have been. It's certainly easier for us to not second guess God when we're getting what we want or can see where the path leads; the opposite is not so easy. But, maybe it's also the case that God doesn't ask us to do what He knows is beyond our capacity to accept? And then we, of course, have the free will to turn Him down anyway.
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