Where are we going?

(it is a wonderful place to live... but really? no job?)

Where are we going?

Since relocating to North Carolina I have met more than a few people who picked up and moved here without a concrete job opportunity to come to.  Some are singles, but a surprising number are actually families.  They tired of the weather or high cost-of-living in other parts of the country so they sold businesses, quit jobs, packed up and moved south, trusting that something would turn up quickly.  I’m pretty certain I could not have done it that way.

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” Hebrews 11:8

The folks I’ve met may have moved “by faith”…faith in the economy, faith in their skills or even faith that God was calling them to something different.  But none of it compares to what Abraham did.  Abraham didn’t have the opportunity to visit his new home on vacation.  He couldn’t compare the cost-of-living, crime statistics or annual weather patterns on the Internet.  Instead, he left his homeland in Ur simply because God told him to.  The Lord’s promise of blessing and provision was enough.

Can we have that much faith around the important issues of life?  Can we hear God speaking to us through scripture and prayer and have that be enough?  Can we truly step into the unknown “by faith” trusting that the Lord will provide and bless our obedience?

I think I could do that…

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 13