I remember the weekend after
my college graduation very well. For 5
years (Yes, I crammed 4-years of college into 5!), I had been connected to a
group of people and suddenly they were gone!
Before graduation, I landed a job painting a professor’s house and after
each of my friends left, I stayed to get the job done. As I walked around the campus, I had this
incredible feeling of loneliness knowing that I would
probably not see many of my friends again.
There’s something in our
human nature that wants to stay where great things are happening. It’s fulfilling to be where God is working,
and it’s natural to want to stay right there.
However, it is the nature of the Spirit of God to scatter us.
This weekend at Crossroads Church in Cranberry, we are
starting a new series entitled: Upside Down. On Sunday we will be looking at Acts chapter
8 and how God broke up the comfortable followers of Jesus in Jerusalem so they
could scatter and share the gospel with others. It is often in these moments that we feel the
pain of walking into the unknown but as we will see on Sunday this at times is
exactly where God wants us to be!
Join us Sunday and bring a
friend as we kick off our new Series! Upside
Down!
I was comfortable too, I trusted that I was loved for who I was and people would make a point to tell me that I would be missed. But when I left that place of comfort I discovered very few even called or emailed or FBed me to let me know what was going on. I did my part too and contacted them but when you get few responses, you stop making the effort. I am no longer where is comfortable, I am getting emotionally and physically what I need but my personal spirtual journey is struggling. I know God is holding me upright and that he is right here beside me which gives me the strength to kepp walking. Wish more people would understand that I did not run away but was pushed away.....a lost sheep who knows her masters voice but longs to be held!!
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