Wayfarer

The events of today's chapter do challenge my assumption that God's apparent silence means His absence. The delay did not mean the promise had died. It meant the story wasn't finished.

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Sometimes the hardest act of obedience isn't the spectacular sacrifice everyone can see. It's the quiet surrender nobody notices.

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Busyness -- even doing God's work -- can come from very different heart motivations. Jehu was absolutely convinced that he was doing God's work. And, in a very real sense, he was. But doing God's work is not necessarily the same thing as having God's heart. That's a sobering distinction.

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In the quiet this morning, a question rises in my heart as the centerpiece of today's chapter-a-day reflections: "What am I becoming while I'm waiting for what comes next?"

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I love that the first people to discover what God has done in today's chapter aren't the king, the powerful, or the spiritually impressive. It's four poor, desperate lepers who basically say: “Well, we're screwed either way. Might as well start walking.”

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Spiritual disciplines don't magically erase what's outside my window, but train the eyes of my heart to perceive realities that fear makes me forget.

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Sometimes my disappointment with God isn't actually because God has abandoned me. It's because God didn't follow the script I wrote for Him.

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Emptiness isn't always the obstacle to God's work. Sometimes emptiness is the capacity for it.

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There will be no rain, but water is coming. Wait for it.

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At some point along the journey inheritance must become ownership. At some waypoint somebody else's faith must become my own. Following in a mentor's footsteps becomes the forging of my own personal path in the larger mission.

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