Move On

I second guess myself often. I'm sure you don't...but I do. I want so badly to get it right...to have the right answer...to know clearly what the next step is...to have the skills to pull off something huge. And most of the time, I can honestly say that it's not for me or my glory.

I want so badly to be a part of a move of God that sweeps this city, this nation, and stretches to ends of the earth. I don't just want to talk about it...I want to see it happen and be a part of it.

That's a good thing. It quickly turns into a vice when I think it has to happen right now and that I have to generate all that is necessary to make it happen. In those moments, doubt creeps in and I turn into a wreck.

I start to doubt God calling us from Greenville to Columbia. I start to doubt the early glimpses He's given me of what we are to do here. I start to doubt myself as a leader capable of pulling it off. Anybody with me on this?

The Israelites faced a similar scenario in Exodus 14. Pharaoh changed his mind on releasing them and now was in hot pursuit. The news alone made the Israelites stop everything and cry out to Moses and to the God who delivered them. They questioned the power, motives, and goodness of their Rescuer. And Moses says to them:

"Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring today...the Lord will fight for you; you need only be still." Exodus 14:13-14

What incredible encouragement...don't be afraid, you'll see deliverance today, the Lord is fighting for you, rest in that fact...but then God chimes in and confuses the situation a little:

"Then the Lord said to Moses , 'Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.'" Exodus 14:15

Be still.
Move on.
Which is it?
Both.

So often, my doubt is based on what I can/can't do with little to no consideration for who God is and what He can do. This only leads to a pursuit of being ____________ enough as a means of relieving my doubt. The problem is I'm trying to relieve my doubt with more of me...not more of the One who fights for me. To that pursuit, God says, "Be still."

But God didn't rescue you and me so that we would just sit around and wait on Him to fight all our battles and when He's done, come get us and say, "It's okay to move forward now."

He called you and me out of slavery and into this journey by faith so that we would live by faith. So that each day, we'd have to make a decision to MOVE ON because of our great confidence in His power, not in our own. When you doubt yourself, but know what has to happen next, God says, "Move on. I am fighting for you."

Be still in your attempts to be good enough.
Move on with full confidence that your Heavenly Father is more than enough.

What do you need to do today to move on in your journey?

Comments

[Tracy]

Incredible and encouraging insight. Thank you!

[jason salamun]

Timely.

Thanks.

[Technonana]

I am studying A HEART LIKE HIS, by Beth Moore, and part of the lesson from last night struck me as something you need to hear, as well as my own sweet children. In 2 Samuel 7:10-11, God made David a promise, but David did not just sit on the throne and wait for God to fulfull His promise. HE OBEYED GOD'S BECKONING TO THE BATTLEFIELD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE VICTORY.
We must assume a posture of cooperation in the fulfillment of that promise!! Keep praying, keep seeking....you will recieve what you have been promised!!

[William Dieckmann]

Jay, if it is about us we will always have doubt. When I have doubt about God, and I do from time to time, I find myself, that is my problem, I find myself, and it not pretty. But, when I take the focus off me and put it upon Jesus, things change.

[Rindy Walton]

I don't doubt that God has called me to be a part of this church plant. I doubt that I can do it--but then I remember if I let him lead, and let him use me--and I just obey what I hear, I know he will make it work.

Stay encouraged!