Let God Lead

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While reading Luke 9:23-26 in The Message translation where Jesus is speaking to the disciples and says, 

Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the drivers seat-I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it.  Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself,  your true self.  What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? If any of you is embarrassed with me and the way I'm leading you, know that the Son of Man will be far more embarrassed with you when he arrives in all his splendor in company with the Father and the holy angels.

I was taken back to sixteen years ago when Steven Curtis Chapman wrote the hit song "The Great Adventure."

"Saddle up your horses, we've got a trail to blaze through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace....let's follow our leader into the glorious unknown...life like no other, this is the great adventure."

No matter our age or stage of life as long as we are still on this earth God is still in the process of growing us up and He has an adventure to lead us on. It may be a physical adventure necessitating a move, it may be a spiritual adventure and it's probably a combo,  but let's find the courage to go with Him wherever he leads.

Take time to to journal the scripture passage above and soak in all the lyrics of this song..."The Great Adventure." It changed my outlook on my day.

The Song

"The Great Adventure"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFPjIp6nkk


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