For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Phil. 2:13)
Expanded Passage: Philippians 2:12-30
During the 1970s and 1980s, many churches (particularly in evangelical circles) held weeklong revival meetings each year led by traveling evangelists. Some of these itinerant ministries led congregations in worship and song; others focused on preaching. My family did both. Because we were on the road so often, my family traveled in an RV. It was our home away from home and felt more like home to me than our ranch house in Nebraska.
One day my mother was visiting with a missionary’s wife and a pastor’s wife. The pastor’s wife expressed admiration for my mom and the missionary’s wife for leaving the security and stability of home to follow God’s call faithfully. Surprised, my mother expressed that she felt blessed to travel around the United States and praised the missionary’s wife for being content to live in a foreign country. The missionary’s wife, in turn, felt she had the easiest job of the three, since she lived in a stationary home in a part of the world that was hungry for God. Laughing, the three women concluded that each must be exactly where they were meant to be!
Sometimes we don’t say yes to God because we’re afraid of where he might lead us. But when God calls, he equips. He gives us both the desire and the ability to do what he has asked.
Don’t be afraid to follow God’s leading.
Laura Hurd is an ordained minister in The Wesleyan Church and co-pastors with her husband, Jason, in northwestern Nebraska. She enjoys rural life, reading, and road trips.
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